Taijirō Amazawa

Taijirō Amazawa ( Japanese 天 沢 退 二郎 , Amazawa Taijirō , born July 21, 1936 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese poet, translator and literary scholar.

Life

Amazawa studied from 1956 on with the film critic and novelist Shigehiko Hasumi at the University of Tokyo . From 1964 to 66 he continued his studies at the University of Paris . Amazawa taught medieval French literature with a focus on the Grail poetry and the myths surrounding King Arthur . He also worked as a translator of French poetry a. a. by Chrétien de Troyes , Marie de France , Jean Renart , Rutebeuf , Adam de la Halle , Robert de Clari , Jean de Joinville , Philippe de Commynes , Charles Perrault , Julien Gracq and François Villon . He is a co-founder of Kyoku magazine .

In 1957 he became known with a book about the poetic world of the poet Miyazawa Kenji , about whom he wrote a highly acclaimed study in 1968. In the 1960s he wrote two volumes of poetry, from the 1970s onwards he increasingly turned to prose poetry. In 1985 Amazawa was awarded the Takami Jun Prize for Jigoku nite ( «地獄》 に て ) , in 2001 he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in the poetry category and the Order of Merit on the purple ribbon for Yūmei gūrinka ( 幽明 偶 輪 歌 ). In 2009 he became a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts , a year later he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure .

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• La Littérature Japonaise - Amazawa Taijiro ( Memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Louis Frédéric: "Japan encyclopedia" , new edition Harvard University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5 , p. 27
• Larousse - Amazawa Taijiro