Kawamori Yoshizō

Kawamori Yoshozō

Kawamori Yoshizō ( Japanese 河 盛 好 蔵 ; born October 4, 1902 in Sakai ( Osaka Prefecture ); died March 27, 2000 in Tōkyō ) was a Japanese literary critic .

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Kawamori Yoshizō completed his studies in Romance languages ​​at the University of Kyoto in 1926 . From 1928 to 1930 he trained in France at the Universities of Paris and Grenoble with a focus on moralistic literature. On his return he taught French literature at Rikkyō University , the Tokyo University of Education (東京 教育 大学), the Kyoritsu Women's University (共 立 女子 大学), a private university in Tōkyō, and other institutions . In addition, Kawamori worked as a literary critic. In 1970 he became a member of the Academy of Arts .

Kawamor won the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1961 for his work "History of French Literature" (フ ラ ン ス 文壇 史, Furansu bundan-shi), on which he had worked from 1954 to 1957. His work "Parisian Melancholy - Baudelaire and his time" (パ リ の 憂愁 - ボ ー ド レ ー ル と そ の 時代 、 Pari no yūshū - Baudelaire to sono jidai) was his life's work, for which he is particularly known. For this work he received the Osaragi Jirō Prize in 1979 . In 1985 he received the Kikuchi Kan Prize . His other works include "Man and his way of dealing with one another" (人 と つ き あ う 法, Hito to tsukiau-hō) from 1958 and "Conversations with Ibuse Masuji " (井 伏 鱒 二 隋 聞, Ibuse Masuji zuimon), 1986.

In 1986 Kawamori was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1988 .

Remarks

1. ↑ The Tokyo University of Education was the forerunner of today's Tsukuba University in Tsukuba .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kawamori Yoshizō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 764.

Web links

• Biographies Kawamori Yoshizō in the Kotobank, Japanese

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