Tamura Ryuichi

Tamura Ryūichi ( Japanese 田村 隆 一 ; born March 18, 1923 in Tokyo , † August 26, 1998 in Kamakura ) was a Japanese poet.

Tamura began to write avant-garde poetry influenced by Western literature as a teenager. From 1941 he studied literature at Meiji University . In 1943 he was drafted into the Imperial Navy . After the war, he founded the literary magazine Arechi (“The desert land”) with Kuroda Saburō and Ayukawa Nobuo .

Tamura's first collection of poems Yosen no Hi to Yoru ( 四千 の 日 と 夜 , "Four Thousand Days and Nights") was published in 1956. With his second collection of poems, Kotoba no nai Sekai ( 言葉 の な い 世界 , "World without language", 1962) he established himself as an important Japanese poet. A first volume of collected poems appeared in 1966. 1967-68 he was a guest poet of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa . He published a total of twenty-eight volumes of poetry. In the year of his death he was awarded the Poetry Prize of the Japanese Academy of Arts .

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• Mark Willhardt, Alan Michael Parker: Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry . Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0-415-16355-2 , pp. 627–628 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Poetry International Rotterdam - Japan - Ryuichi Tamura
• CCC Books - Tamura Ryuichi 1923-1998

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