Toyoshima Yoshio
Toyoshima Yoshio ( Japanese 豊 島 与 志雄 ; born November 27, 1890 in Fukuoka Prefecture , † June 8, 1955 ) was a Japanese writer and translator.
Toyoshima published numerous short stories and novels, including Yamabuki no hana ( 山 吹 の 花 ; 1954). In addition, he was best known for translations by Western authors, primarily from French. Among other things, he translated Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables as well as the fairy tales from the Arabian Nights based on the English translation by Richard Francis Burton .
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- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 992 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- Michael Lucken: Les Japonais et la guerre: 1937-1952 . Fayard, 2013, ISBN 978-2-213-67685-2 , pp. 215 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - footnote 461).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toyoshima, Yoshio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 豊 島 与 志雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fukuoka Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1955 |