Kubota Utsubo

Kubota Utsubo ( Japanese 窪 田 空 穂 ; born June 8, 1877 in Wada , Higashichikuma County (today: Matsumoto ), Nagano Prefecture ; † April 12, 1967 ) was a Japanese poet. One son is the lyricist Kubota Shōichirō .

Life

Kubota worked as a professor of Japanese literature at Waseda University . He worked on the Japanese waka poetry and in 1964 published the book Bashō no haiku on the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō . Kubota himself emerged as the author of tankas in the new style ( Shintaishi ), which he published in several collections ( Tsuchi o nagamete , 1918; Kyonen no yuji , 1967; Chōsei-chū ). In 1911 stories appeared under the title Rohen .

literature

• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5 , pp. 524 ( limited preview in the Google book search - original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Makoto Ueda: Bashō and his interpreters: selected hokku with commentary . Stanford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8047-2526-2 , pp. 524 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Matsumoto City website with information on the Kubota Utsubo Memorial

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