Miya Shūji

Miya Shūji ( Japanese 宮 柊 二 ; * August 23, 1912 , † December 11, 1986 ) was a Japanese poet.

After attending middle school, Miya had to pay for his family's maintenance because his father went bankrupt with a bookstore. At times he worked as the secretary of the poet Kitahara Hakushū , who promoted him. His health was ruined by his war effort in China during World War II, so that he retired from professional activity in 1960 to devote himself entirely to writing. Along with Kondo Yoshimi, Miya is one of the well-known Tanka poets of the period after the Second World War.

literature

• J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel (Eds.): The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature . Volume 2: From 1945 to the Present. Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-231-13804-0 , pp. 447–448 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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