Orikuchi Shinobu

Orikuchi Shinobu

Literature and stone monument at Orikuchi's birthplace in Osaka

Orikuchi Shinobu ( Japanese 折 口 信 夫 ; wrongly read Origuchi Nobuo ; born February 11, 1887 in Kizu , Nishinari-gun (today: Osaka ); † May 3, 1953 ) was a Japanese writer and literary scholar.

Life

The merchant's son Orikuchi studied at Kokugakuin University until 1910 . He taught for some time in Osaka and then met the ethnologist Yanagita Kunio in Tokyo in a study group for Japanese folk culture led by Nitobe Inazō . This encounter stimulated him to his own studies, and in 1917 he published the writing Kōyaku man'yōshū ("The oral tradition of Man'yōshū "). In 1920 he became a lecturer, the following year professor at Kokugakuin University. Since 1928 he also taught at Keiō University .

After the Second World War, Orikuchi gave introductory courses in Shintoism at Kokugakuin University. He developed a new view of Shintoism and introduced new ideas and terms into the scientific debate.

Orikuchi published as a poet under the name Shaku Chōkū ( 釈 迢 空 ). He published u. a. the song collections Umi yama no aida and Iwoguna , the poetry anthology Kodai kan'aishū and the novel Shisha no sho , as well as literary theoretical writings such as Kodai kenkyū . A complete edition of his works was published under the title Orikuchi Shinobu zenshū .

Works

• Umi Yama no Aida ( 海 や ま の あ ひ だ ) - Tanka
• Haru no Kotobure ( 春 の こ と ぶ れ ) - Tanka
• Shisha no Sho ( 死者 の 書 )
• Kodai Kenkyū ( 古代 研究 )
• Kabuki San ( か ぶ き 讃 )

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• Tsushiro Hirofumi:  "Orikuchi Shinobu" . In: Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugaku-in , April 15, 2006 (English)
• Kato Koichi: 作家 事 典 折 口信 夫 . August 31, 2001, accessed February 8, 2013 . 

Web links

Commons : Shinobu Orikuchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Digital copies of Origuchi's works at Aozora Bunko

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