Takahama Kyoshi
Takahama Kyoshi ( Japanese 高 浜 虚 子 ; * February 22, 1874 in Matsuyama ; † April 8, 1959 Kamakura ), actually Takahama Kiyoshi ( 高 濱 清 ), was a Japanese poet and writer of the Meiji , Taishō and Shōwa periods .
He met Masaoka Shiki through Kawahigashi Hekigotō , with whom he attended the same class of middle school, and came into contact with the haiku poets and writers who gathered around him. When Shiki began to renew / modernize haiku, he was seen as an influential new comrade in addition to Hekigotō. He took part in the Sankai literary meeting held by Shiki in 1900 ( 山 会 , dt. "Mountain Meeting"), and it was at his instigation that Natsume Sōseki published his novel Ich der Kater in the magazine Hototogisu , originally a haiku magazine , published. He also wrote novels himself. Then he concentrated on the haiku, but represented a conservative school here. At the beginning of the Shōwa period he proclaimed his principle Kachōfūei ( 花鳥 諷 詠 , see below ), to which he remained connected until the end. He was eminent as the director of Hototogisu magazine.
Life
Takahama Kyoshi was born as Ikeuchi Kiyoshi ( 池内 清 ) on February 22, 1874 in Matsuyama , Iyo Province . In 1882, at the age of eight, he inherited the name of his grandmother, who was from the Takahama family . In 1891, at the age of 18, Masaoka Shiki gave him the name Kyoshi , by which he is known today.
In 1892 he entered what was then the Third High School ( 第三 高等学校 , Dai-san kōtō gakkō , just called Sankō for short ), which he later dropped out to change schools.
In October 1898, at the age of 24, he became editor of the haiku magazine Hototogisu, founded the previous year by Masaoka Shiki .
Ten years later, in 1908, he published the short story collection Keitō ( 鶏 頭 , German " Hahnenkamm (plant) ") and in the following year, 1909, the extensive work Haikaishi ( 俳 諧 師 , German "The Haiku Master"). At the age of 39, in 1913, he returned to the circle of haiku poets and represented the fixed, traditional form of haiku with kigo (season word), which assigns a season to every image of nature described by a haiku.
In 1896 (??) he published Kaki-futatsu ( 柿 二 つ , German "Two Kaki Fruits"), an extensive description of Masaoka Shiki's late years .
In 1927 Takahama Kyoshi took part in haiku meetings everywhere and proclaimed his principle Kachōfūei ( 花鳥 諷 詠 , for example: "natural poetry"), according to which the basis of haiku is things of nature that affect people or nature itself, factually and without Describe emotions.
In 1928, at the age of 54, he published a collection of his haiku, Kyoshi-kushū ( 虚 子句 集 ), and in 1937, when he was 63, he published a second collection, Gohyaku-ku ( 五百 句 , English: “Five hundred haiku "), followed.
In 1954 Takahama was awarded the Order of Culture .
On April 8, 1959, at the age of 85, Takahama Kyoshi passed away.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Berndt: Takahama Kyoshi . In: Gerhard Steiner, Herbert Greiner-Mai , Wolfgang Lehmann (ed.): Lexicon of foreign language writers . tape 3 . Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, Leipzig 1977, p. 382 .
- ↑ Shinmura Izuru (Ed.): Kōjien . 4th edition Iwanami shoten, Tōkyō 1991.
- ↑ Kanaoka, Shōji (Ed.): Shinteikokugosōran . 3rd edition Kyōtoshobō, Kyōto 2004.
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| SURNAME | Takahama, Kyoshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 高 浜 虚 子 (Japanese); Takahama Kiyoshi (real name); 高 濱 清 (Japanese, real name); Ikeuchi Kiyoshi (maiden name); 池内 清 (Japanese, maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese poet and writer of the Meiji , Taishō and Shōwa periods |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Matsuyama |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1959 |
| Place of death | Kamakura |