Takeda Taijun

Takeda Taijun

Takeda Taijun ( Japanese 武田 泰 淳 ; born February 12, 1912 in Tokyo ; † October 5, 1976 ) was a Japanese writer.

The son of a Buddhist monk began studying Sinology at the University of Tokyo in 1932 , but had to drop out because of political activities that resulted in him being arrested. In 1934 he founded the magazine Chūgoku Bungaku for Chinese studies with other sinologists . In 1937 he was drafted into the army and came to Shanghai. Two years later he returned to Japan and published the novel Shiba Sen about the Chinese historian Sima Qian here in 1943 . From 1944 to 1946 he headed the Sino-Japanese Cultural Society in Shanghai. From 1947 he taught at the University of Hokkaidō for a year , after which he lived as a freelance writer. In 1973 he received the Grand Prize for Japanese Literature for the novel Kairaku , and in 1976 the Noma Literature Prize for Memai no suru sanpo . In addition to novels, he also published several volumes of essays. Some of his works have been a. Filmed by Uchida Tomu and Nagisa Ōshima .

Works

• 1943 Shiba Sen ( 司馬遷 )
• 1947 Shimpan
• 1947 Mamushi no sue ( 蝮 の す ゑ )
• 1948 Ai no katachi ( 愛 の か た ち )
• 1950 Igyō no mono ( 異形 の 者 )
• 1951 Hashi o kizuku ( 橋 を 築 く )
  • “Die Brücke”, translated by Peter Pörtner, in: Hefte für Ostasiatische Literatur 10, Munich, iudicium, Oct. 1990, pp. 24–35
• 1952 Fūbaika ( 風 媒 花 )
• 1954 Hikarigoke
• 1954 Ningen bungaku rekishi ( 人間 ・ 文学 ・ 歴 史 ), essays
• 1955–58 Mori to mizūmi no matsuri ( 森 と 湖 の ま つ り )
• 1957 Miru kiku kangeru ( み る ・ き く ・ か ん が へ る ), essays
• 1972 Keraku ( 快 楽 )
• 1974 Fuji ( 富士 )
• 1976 Memai no suru sanpo ( 目 ま い の す る 散 歩 )

literature

• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 939 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Scott J. Miller: The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-7615-6 , pp. 122 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature . Volume 2: From 1945 to the Present. Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-13804-8 , pp. 368–369 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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