Kusano Shinpei
Kusano Shinpei ( Japanese 草野 心 平 ; born May 12, 1903 in Kamiogawa , today: Iwaki , Fukushima Prefecture ; † November 12, 1988 ) was a Japanese poet.
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Kusano first traveled to China in 1921 and attended Lingnan University in Hong Kong . In 1928 he published his first volume of poetry. From 1940 to 1943 he was an advisor to Wang Ching-Wei's government in the Republic of China . During this time he wrote patriotic poems about Mount Fuji , in which he combined mythological themes with Pan-Asian thoughts.
His verses are designed dynamically and use everyday language patterns. Kusano is particularly known for his poems that describe human life and feelings from a frog's perspective. These can be found u. a. in “Authentic Reports on the Frog” (定本 蛙, Teihon kaeru), with which he won the first 1949 Yomiuri literary prize for poetry in 1949 .
In 1983 Kusano was honored as a person with special cultural merits (Bunka Kōrōsha), and in 1987 was awarded the Order of Culture .
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- S. Noma (Ed.): Kusano Shimpei . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 849.
- J. Thomas Rimer: "The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature" , Columbia University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780231157230 , p. 420
- Morris Low: Japan On Display: Photography and the Emperor , Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 9780415371483 , pp. 86-87
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kusano, Shinpei |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 草野 心 平 (Japanese); Kusano, Shimpei (alternative transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamiogawa , today: Iwaki , Fukushima Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1988 |