Hori Tatsuo

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Hori Tasuo

Hori Tatsuo ( Japanese 堀 辰 雄 ; born December 28, 1904 in Tokyo ; † May 28, 1953 ) was a Japanese writer and translator.

Hori Tatsuo studied at the University of Tokyo and, while studying, joined a circle that had been founded by the poet Murō Saisei . He wrote translations of French poetry for his magazine "Roba" (驢 馬). He became known as a translator of works by contemporary French writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire and Jean Cocteau , André Gide , Marcel Proust and François Mauriac and the German Rainer Maria Rilke .

Hori was a student and friend of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke , whose works he edited after his death. His own poems and stories are characterized by the atmosphere of mountain sanatoriums. The preoccupation with death also reflects his long struggle with tuberculosis. His style is impressionistic and often lacks an actual plot.

He wrote several short stories, including Kaze tachinu (1936–37), which deals with the life of a man and a woman in a tuberculosis sanatorium in the mountains of Nagano. This work was used by Hayao Miyazaki as a template for his manga of the same name , which was again implemented as a movie in 2013. In 1941 he wrote his first novel with Naoko .

Works (selection)

  • Sei kazoku ( 聖 家族 ), 1930
    • dt. The Holy Family, translated by Kakuji Watanabe, in: Japanese Masters of Narration, 1960
  • Kaifukuki ( 恢復期 )
    • dt. The disease, translated by Shin Aizu, in: The melancholy loading crane, 1960
  • Banka ( 晩 夏 )
    • German A late summer, translated by Gunter Zobel, Sanshusha, Tokyo, 1974
  • Utsukushii Mura ( 美 し い 村 ), 1933, novella
  • Kaze tachinu ( 風 立 ち ぬ ), 1936–37, novella
  • Naoko ( 菜 穂 子 ), 1941, novel

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Hori Tatsuo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 562.

Web links

Commons : Tatsuo Hori  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japanese Literature in Translation Search. (No longer available online.) Japan Foundation, 2012, archived from the original on June 3, 2012 ; Retrieved June 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jpf.go.jp
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hori is the family name, Tatsuo the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hori, Tatsuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 堀 辰 雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1953