Kinoshita Mokutaro
Kinoshita Mokutarō ( Japanese 木 下 杢 太郎 , real name: Ōta Masao ( 太 田 正雄 ); born August 1, 1885 in Izu (Shizuoka) ; † October 15, 1945 ) was a Japanese writer , doctor and leprosy researcher .
The trained dermatologist toured China and Manchuria in 1916 and was awarded the French Légion d'honneur for his dermatological research . He published poems in poetry magazines such as Subaru and Okujō Teien . His works include the volume of poems Shokugo no uta and the play Irumiya somemonoten . A twelve-volume complete edition of his works was published between 1948 and 1951 ( Kinoshita Mokutarō zenshū ).
He taught at Tokyo University .
literature
- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 524 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
Web links
- Digital copies of his works at Aozora Bunko (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 木 下 杢 太郎 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 17, 2012 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kinoshita, Mokutaro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 木 下 杢 太郎 (Japanese); Ōta Masao (real name); 太 田正雄 (real name, Japanese); Horikason (writer's name); 堀 花 村 (writer's name, Japanese); Sōnan (writer's name); 葱 南 (writer's name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Izu (Shizuoka) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1945 |