Sugita Hisajo

Sugita Hisajo ( Japanese 杉 田 久 女 ; born May 30, 1890 in Kagoshima ; † January 21, 1946 ), actually Sugita Hisa ( 杉 田 久 ), was a Japanese haiku poet of the Meiji , Taishō and Shōwa periods .

Life

Sugita Hisajo was born on May 30, 1890 as the third daughter of the high civil servant Akahori Renzō ( 赤 堀 廉 蔵 ) and his wife Sayo ( さ よ ) in Kagoshima . When their father was transferred, the family moved to Naha on Okinawa and Taipei on Formosa .

In 1908 she attended Ochanomizu High School (today Ochanomizu University) in Tōkyō . During this time, the family also moved to Tōkyō. In 1909 she married the art teacher and painter Sugita Unai ( 杉 田 宇内 ) , who was employed at the then Kokura Middle School, and moved with him to Kokura (now part of Kitakyūshū , Fukuoka Prefecture ), where he was employed.

In 1911 their first daughter Masako ( 昌 子 ) was born, who later became known as the haiku poet Ishi Masako ( 石 昌 子 ).

In 1916, her brother Akahori Getsuken ( 青 堀 月 蟾 ) lived with her, who was also a haiku poet and who introduced her to haiku poetry. Until then, Hisajo wanted to be a novelist. She began writing haiku for Hototogisu magazine , founded by Masaoka Shiki and published by Takahama Kyoshi . She published her first haiku in the January 1917 issue. In May she met Takahama Kyoshi for the first time at the haiku meeting in the home of the Iishima Misako ( 飯 島 み さ 子 ).

In 1922, she and her husband were baptized and converted to Christianity .

In 1932 she founded the magazine Hanagoromo ( 花衣 ) and became its editor-in-chief. But already after the fifth edition, the printing had to be stopped. In 1934 she was accepted into the circle of authors of the Hototogisu together with Nakamura Teijo , Takeshita Shizunojo and others .

In 1936 she was excluded from the Hototogisu magazine by Kyoshi , but she continued to publish haiku in it.

Due to the food shortage after the Pacific War , she suffered a nutritional disorder that caused kidney disease and on January 21, 1946 in the sanatorium in Dazaifu led to the death of Sigita Hisajos. She was 57 years old.

She found her final resting place in the Sugita family cemetery in Obara Village , Nishikamo County , Aichi Prefecture (today: Matsuna , Toyota ). In 1957 she was reburied in the Akahori family cemetery. The grave inscription Hisajo no haka ( 久 女 の 墓 , dt. "Hisajo's grave") was executed at the request of the eldest daughter Masako by Takahama Kyoshi .

Works in German translation

• Autumn is here . Bilingual edition: Japanese / German. Translated from the Japanese by Fumie Miyata, Calambac Verlag, Saarbrücken 2019, ISBN 978-3-943117-06-6 .

Web links

• Digitized works at Aozora Bunko

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