Umezaki Haruo

Umezaki Haruo, 1948

Umezaki Haruo ( Japanese 梅 崎 春 生 ; * February 15, 1915 in Sunoko-machi (today: Ōtemon, Chūō-ku ), Fukuoka , Fukuoka Prefecture ; † July 19, 1965 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Umezaki was born in Fukuoka. He attended the local 5th high school and then studied Japanese language and literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo . He then worked at the university in the Faculty of Education ( kyōiku ). He experienced the end of the war as a cipher in Kagoshima Prefecture . After the war he worked in the editorial department of Eguchi Shin'ichi's (1914–1979) magazine Sunao ( 素 直 ), in which his work Sakurajima also appeared. In 1954 he received the Naoki Prize for Boroya no shunjū . Umezaki is counted among the first generation of post-war poets.

Works

• 1946 Sakurajima ( 桜 島 )
• 1947 Hi no hate ( 日 の 果 て )
• 1950 Kuroi hana ( 黒 い 花 )
• 1954 Boroya no shunjū ( ボ ロ 家 の 春秋 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 梅 崎 春 生 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved May 18, 2013 (Japanese). 

Web links

• Erik R. Lofgren: Democratizing Illnesses: Umezaki Haruo, Censorship, and Subversion . In: Comparative Literature . tape 52 , no. 2 , 2000, pp. 157–178 (English, academicroom.com [accessed May 18, 2013]).
• Scott J. Miller: Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . In: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the arts . tape 33 . Scarecrow Press, Maryland 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-5810-7 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed May 18, 2013]).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Umezaki is the family name, Haruo the first name.