Takagi Taku

Takagi Taku ( Japanese 高木 卓 , real name: 安藤 煕 , Andō Hiroshi ; born January 18, 1907 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † December 28, 1974 ) was a Japanese literary scholar (Germanist), music critic and writer of historical novels ( rekishi shōsetsu ) . His uncle was the writer Kōda Rohan . His daughter is the youth author and copywriter Takagi Akiko (* 1940).

Life

Taku was born in Tokyo as the son of the violinist Andō Kō (nee Kōda), who was the first woman to be honored as a person with special cultural merits , and the Englishist Andō Katsuichirō . He studied German literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo , which he graduated in 1930 and then taught at the Mito High School in Tokiwa and published novels in the literary magazine Sakka Seishin ( 作家 精神 ). After he was a candidate for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1936 , he was selected as a winner in 1940 for his novel Uta to mon no tate ( 歌 と 門 の 盾 ) about Ōtomo no Yakamochi , but turned down the award.

After the Second World War, he taught at the University of Tokyo until his retirement, then at the Dokkyō University . He translated almost all of Richard Wagner's operas into Japanese. Andō Kō died in 1974 at the age of 67.

Works

• 1940 Uta to mon no tate ( 歌 と 門 の 盾 )
• 1943 Shōtoku Taishi ( 聖 徳 太子 )
• 1948 Ningen Rōhan ( 人間 露 伴 )
• 1951 Murasaki Shikibu ( 紫 式 部 )
• 1955 Beethoven ( ベ ー ト ー ヴ ェ ン )
• 1958 Akutagawa Ryūnosuke dokuhon ( 芥川龍之介 読 本 )
• 1966 Schubert ( シ ュ ー ベ ル ト )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 高木 卓 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved April 19, 2015 (Japanese). 

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