Ozaki Kihachi

Ozaki Kihachi ( Japanese 尾崎 喜 八 ; born January 31, 1892 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † February 4, 1974 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

While attending the Keika Shogyo School, Ozaki learned the English language and studied English poetry. As an employee of a trading company, he began under the influence of the poet and sculptor Takamura Kōtarō , whom he had met in 1911, to compose translations, poems and stories that were published in the literary magazine Shirakaba .

His first collection of poems appeared in 1922 under the title Sora to Jumoku . Encouraged by his friends Mushanokoji Saneatsu and Senge Motomaro , he strove to combine literary production with a life close to nature. He learned the German and French language autodidactically and was impressed by the works of Romain Rolland and Hermann Hesse as well as the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke , which he got to know in the translation of Chino Shosho . In addition to the poetry collections Takamura Shisho and Hana Sakeru Kodoku , he created translations of works by Hesse, Rolland and Georges Duhamel .

Web links

• Kamakura City, Kamakura´s Literary Figures - Biography

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