Takano Suju

Takano Sujū ( Japanese 高 野 素 十 ; born March 3, 1893 in Sannō ; † October 4, 1976 ), actually Takano Yoshimi ( 高 野 与 巳 ), was a Japanese haiku poet and doctor of medicine. Together with Yamaguchi Seishi , Mizuhara Shūōshi and Awano Seiho , he was one of the so-called "four S" of the haiku magazine Hototogisu .

Life

Takano Sujū was born in Sannō Village , Kitasōma County , Ibaraki Prefecture (now the Kasumi district ( 神 住 ) of the city of Toride ).

After attending the Nagaoka Middle School (today: Niigata Prefecture High School Nagaoka, 新潟 県 立 長 岡 高等学校 , Niigata-kenritsu Nagaoka kōtō gakkō ) and the First High School in Tōkyō ( 第一 高等学校 , Dai-ichi kōtō gakkō ) he began studying an the medical faculty of the Imperial University of Tōkyō . He specialized in forensic medicine and attended the serology and chemistry seminar . One of the semesters older of the same seminar was Mizuhara Shūōshi . It was this who induced Sujū to write haiku. In the baseball competitions at the medical school, the two always played in the combination that Sujū occupied the position of the thrower and Shūōshi occupied the position of the catcher.

In 1918 Sujū finished his studies.

In 1923 he took part in the haiku magazine Hototogisu and became a student of its editor Takahama Kyoshi . To further his training in the field of serology, he went on a study trip to Germany. After his return he became a professor at what was then Niigata Medical University (which is now Niigata University's medical faculty ). He later became president of the university. In 1953, at the age of 60, he resigned from the office and founded the haiku magazine Seri ( 芹 , English "watercress"), which he took over as director. He then worked as a professor of forensic medicine at the Medical University of Nara Prefecture until 1960 .

In 1976 Takano Sujū died at the age of 83. He found his final resting place in the Jin'ya Temple ( Jin'ya-ji ), Kimitsu , Chiba Prefecture .

criticism

The literary style of the Haiku Sujūs was based on the Kyakkan-shasei principle established by Takahama Kyoshi ( 客 観 写生 , dt. "Objective sketch according to nature", "objective description of nature"). The consistently factual and objective description of nature he used was called the "school of pure description of nature" ( 純 写生 派 , junshaseiha ). His strength lay in describing immediate, nearby scenes. Shūōshi saw in him a rival. Both teachers, Takahama Kyoshi, were positive about Sujū, but negative about Shūōshi. This led to Shūōshi evaluating the Haiku Sujūs particularly critically.

Works

• Hatsugarasu ( 初 鴉 ). Seishidō, Tōkyō 1947.
• Seppen ( 雪片 ). Shorin Shinkōchō, Tōkyō 1952.
• Nohana shū ( 野花 集 ). Shinkōchō, Tōkyō 1953.
• Sujū zenshū ( 素 十 全集 ). Meiji Shoin, Tōkyō 1970–1971.

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