Makoto Ōoka

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Makoto Ōoka ( Japanese 大 岡 信 , Ōoka Makoto ; born February 16, 1931 in Mishima / Shizuoka Prefecture ; † April 5, 2017 ) was a Japanese poet and literary scholar .

View of the Ooka Makoto Kotoba Museum

Life

Ōoka studied Japanese literature at the University of Tokyo until 1953 . He then worked for the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper for ten years . In 1965 he began teaching at Meiji University and was appointed professor in 1970. From 1988 to 1994 he was a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts . In addition, he headed the Japanese Society for Contemporary Poetry from 1979 to 1981 and from 1989 to 1994 the PEN Center Japan .

As a poet Ōoka made his debut in 1956 with the collection of poems Kioku to genzai (記憶 と 現在). The poetry collections A String Around Autumn (1981) and Elegy and Benediction (1991) were published in English translation . However, he was best known for his literary writings such as Chōgenjitsu to Jojō (超 現 実 と 抒情; 1965), Tōji no Kakei (蕩 児 の 家 系; 1969) and Kotoba no chikara (言葉 の 力; 1971), the z. Some have also been translated into English and French (including The Colors of Poetry: Essays in Classic Japanese Verse , 1991).

Ōoka received the 1971 Yomiuri Literature Prize for Ki no Tsurayuki (紀 貫 之) on a poet from the Heian period and in 1996 the Asahi Prize . In 1976 he was a candidate for the Japanese Literature Grand Prix . In 1997 Ōoka was honored as a person with special cultural merits , in 2003 he was awarded the Order of Culture .

In 2000, Carl Hanser Verlag published poetry and poetry of ancient Japan. Five lectures at the College de France .

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Ōoka Makoto . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1156.

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personal data
SURNAME Ōoka, Makoto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 大 岡 信 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese poet and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Mishima (Shizuoka)
DATE OF DEATH 5th April 2017