Kitahara Hakushu

Kitahara Hakushū ( Japanese 北原白秋 , actually: Kitahara Ryūkichi ( 北原隆吉 ); born January 25, 1885 in Yanagawa ; † November 22, 1942 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese poet, especially children's poetry .

Life

Kitahara published poems in magazines as a teenager and won a competition from Waseda Gakuhō magazine ( 早稲田学報 ) with the poem Zento Kakusei no Fu ( 全都覚醒賦 ). From 1904 he attended Waseda University for a short time , where he a. a. Wakayama Bokusui met. He joined the writers' groups Shinshisha ( 新詩社 ; 1906) and Pan no Kai ( パンの会 ; 1908) and in 1909 published his first volume of poetry Jashūmon . The Tanka collection Kiri no Hana was published in 1913 .

In 1918 Suzuki Miekichi appointed him to his magazine Akai Tori ( 赤い鳥 ). Here he had the task of sifting through submitted poems and collecting nursery rhymes and songs. Several volumes of poetry and the collection of essays Midori no Shokkaku emerged from the work . In 1976 Nihon Denshō Dōyō Shūsei ( 日本伝承童謡集成 , "Traditional Japanese Nursery Rhymes ") appeared in six volumes.

Kitahara founded the Tanka magazine Tama in 1935 and became one of the leading exponents of Japanese symbolism . Among the writers he encouraged were Kimata Osamu and Miya Shūji .

Works

Jashūmon ( 邪宗門 ), poems, 1909

Omoide ( 思ひ出 ), poems, 1910

Kiri no Hana ( 桐の花 ), poems, 1913

Tombo no Medama ( とんぼの眼玉 ), poems for children, 1919

Mother Goose ( まざあ・ぐうす , Mazā Gūsu ), poetry translations from English, 1921

Usagi no Dempō ( 兎の電報 ), Nursery Rhymes , 1921

Kodomo no Mura ( 子供の村 ), Nursery Rhymes, 1926

Midori no Shokkaku ( 緑の触覚 ), Essays, 1929

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personal data
SURNAME	Kitahara, Hakushu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	北原白秋 (Japanese, pseudonym); Kitahara Ryūkichi (real name); 北原隆吉 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yanagawa
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1942
Place of death	Tokyo