Kaneko Misuzu

Misuzu Kaneko

Kaneko Misuzu ( Japanese 金子 み す ゞ , real name: Kaneko Teru ( 金子 テ ル ); born April 11, 1903 in Senzaki , Ōtsu-gun (today: Senzaki, Nagato , Yamaguchi Prefecture ); † March 10, 1930 ) was a Japanese Poetess.

Life

Kaneko was born in the small port village of Senzaki in 1903, her younger brother two years later. Her father Shōnosuke died in 1906 when she was three years old. Kaneko did not start writing poetry for children until he was 20 years old . Growing up by the sea, her works are characterized by images of fishing and the sea. She worked in a bookstore in Shimonoseki , reading magazines such as Akai Tori ( 赤 い 鳥 , Red Bird ), which published children's poems that were trending by their readers. Kaneko sent in several of his own poems, five of which were published in four different magazines in 1923. Over the next five years she published more than 50 more poems.

In 1926 she married a man who forbade her to write and contracted a venereal disease in the entertainment district. Then Kaneko filed for a divorce. After the divorce, a dispute broke out over their daughter. In protest and because Kaneko refused to leave her daughter, she committed suicide by poisoning in 1930 at the age of only 26.

She left behind 512 poems and three notebooks that were found in 1982.

Works

• 1984 New work edition in 3 volumes Shinsōhan Kaneko Misuzu zenshu ( 新装 版 金子 み す ゞ 全集 ⅠⅡⅢ ), JURA

Remarks

1. ↑ It concerned the magazines: Dōwa ( 童話 ), Fujin Kurabu ( 婦人 倶 楽 部 ), Fujin Gahō ( 婦人 画報 ) and Kin no Hoshi ( 金 の 星 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 金子 み す ゞ . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed December 22, 2011 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ 金子 記念 館 ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Center for the Language and Culture of Japan at the Humboldt University Berlin
• 金子 記念 館 (Japanese) - Misuzu Kaneko Museum in Nagato
• 金子 み す ゞ の 詩 の 分析 (Japanese) - poems and analyzes
• Kaneko Misuzu exhibition from May 14th to June 15th 2011 in Yokohama

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kaneko is the family name, Misuzu the first name.