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
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SURNAME | Takagi, Taku |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 高木 卓 (Japanese); Andō Hiroshi (real name); 安藤 煕 (real name, Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese literary scholar, music critic and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |
DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1974 |