Takeyama Michio

Takeyama Michio ( Japanese 竹山 道 雄 ; born July 17, 1903 in Osaka Prefecture , † June 15, 1984 ) was a Japanese writer, translator and literary scholar.

Life

Due to his father's occupation, who was an employee of a bank, Takeyama often changed his place of residence as a child and lived a.o. a. several years a Seoul . He studied German literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo and was sent on a three-year study trip to Europe by the Japanese Ministry of Education .

After returning to Japan, he worked as a professor of German literature and translator. He translated poems by Goethe , Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra , Albert Schweitzer's autobiography and Johanna Spyris Heidi .

After the Second World War , his best-known work, the novel Biruma no Tategoto , appeared in sequels in the magazine Akatombo ( 赤 と ん ぼ ). In 1951 he ended his teaching activities and wrote literary and cultural criticism. In 1957 he helped found the Nihon Bunka Forum . In 1959 he founded the literary magazine Jiyū ( 自由 ), which he published together with Hirabayashi Taiko . There were also reports from his travels through Europe and the Soviet Union . For these reports he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1961 .

Works (selection)

• Biruma no Tategoto ( ビ ル マ の 竪琴 , "The Harp of Burma"), novel
• Shōwa no Seishinshi ( 昭和 の 精神 史 , "Psychological history of the Shōwa period ")
• Ningen ni Tsuite ( 人間 に つ い て , "About people")
• Koto Henreki: Nara (pilgrimage to the old capital Nara)
• Nihonjin to Bi (The Japanese and the Beautiful)
• Yōroppa no Tabi ( ヨ ー ロ ッ パ の 旅 , "Travel through Europe")
• Maboroshi to Shinjitsu: Watashi no Sovieto Kembun ( ま ぼ ろ し と 真 実 - 私 の ソ ヴ ィ エ ト 見聞 , "Fantasy and Truth: My Observations in the Soviet Union")

Web links

• Kamakura's Literary Figures Kamakura City - Biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 第 11 回 （昭和 34 年度） ～ 第 20 回 （昭和 43 年度） . Yomiuri Shimbun , archived from the original on April 20, 2005 ; Retrieved May 29, 2010 (Japanese). 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Takeyama is the family name, Michio the first name.