Nakano Yoshio

Nakano Yoshio ( Japanese 中 野 好 夫 ; born August 2, 1903 in Matsuyama ( Ehime Prefecture ); † February 20, 1985 ) was a Japanese literary scholar and translator.

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Nakano Yoshio made his 1926 degree at the University of Tōkyō in English. He then worked as a teacher until he became an assistant professor at his alma mater in 1935. From 1948 to 1953 he worked as a professor. As an expert on English literature, he taught Elizabethan drama and American literature at Tōkyō University and from 1956 to 1957 at Stanford University .

Works such as Arabia no Rorensu ( Lawrence of Arabia , 1940), Okinawa mondai nijūnen ( Twenty Years of the Okinawa Question , 1965), Suwifuto-kō ( Study on Swift , 1969) and Eibungaku yobanashi ( Night Conversations on English Literature , 1971) are evidence of his wide-ranging nature Interests.

In addition, Makano et al. a. William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice , Swifts Gullivers Travels and William Somerset Maughams The Moon and Sixpence and wrote the three-volume biography Roka Tokutomi Kenjirō , for which he received the Osaragi-Jirō Prize in 1974 . He was also awarded the Mainichi Culture Prize in 1974 and the Asahi Prize in 1982.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Nakano Yoshio . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1041.
• Shūichi Katō , Chia-ning Chang: A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World . University of California Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-520-21979-3 , pp. 128 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Biography Nakano Yoshio in the Kotobank, Japanese

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