Saitō Mokichi

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Saitō Mokichi

Saitō Mokichi ( Japanese 斎 藤 茂 吉 ; * February 14, 1882 in Kanakame , Minamimurayama-gun (today: Kaminoyama ), Yamagata Prefecture as Moriya Mokichi ( 守 谷 茂 吉 ); † February 25, 1952 ) was a Japanese psychiatrist , tanka poet and Essayist.

Life

Born the third son of the farmer Moriya Kumajirō, he was sent to the related Saitō family in Tokyo to study at the Kasei Middle School. In 1905 he married into this one and, impressed by Shiki Masaoka's poetry collection Take no Satouta, began to write.

In the following year he became a student of Itō Sachio and later a founding member of the literary magazine Araragi (1908), whose direction he later took over. He published a total of 17 volumes of poetry, as well as essays a. a. about Japanese folklore. His complete works comprise 56 volumes. He was awarded the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1949 , the Order of Culture in 1951 and in 1952 as a person with special cultural merits ( Bunka Kōrōsha ).

After studying medicine in Tokyo, Saitō studied between 1921 and 1924 in Vienna and Munich. His report on this time ("Bug Diary") was published in 2011 in German translation by Herder Verlag . After returning to Japan, he rebuilt his father-in-law's hospital that had burned down and worked as a psychiatrist. As a general practitioner for the Akutagawa Ryūnosukes family , he supported the latter in his suicide.

Saitō's eldest son was the psychiatrist and essayist Saitō Shigeta (1916-2006), his second son the psychiatrist and poet Kita Morio (1927-2011). His daughter Saitō Yuka (* 1962) became known as an essayist.

A museum was built in his hometown in his honor .

Works

  • 1913 Shakkō (English: Red Light )
  • 1921 Aratama (Engl .: Jewel in the Rough )
  • 1949 Shiroki yama (English: White Mountain )
  • 1950 Renzan

Web links

Commons : Saitō Mokichi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

Commons : Saito Mokichi  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  1. a b 斎 藤 茂 吉 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved May 18, 2013 (Japanese).
  2. Araragi ZDB -ID 1002809-2 .