Wenceslau de Morães

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Tomb of Wenceslau de Moraes

Wenceslau de Morães (or Venceslau de Morais , actually Wenceslaus José de Sousa Morães , born May 30, 1854 in Lisbon , † July 1, 1929 in Tokushima , Japan ) was a Portuguese naval officer, diplomat and writer whose works give an accurate picture of life to reproduce simple Japanese.

Life

De Morães was born in Lisbon in 1854. After his officer training at a naval school, he served on several ships in the Portuguese Navy. In 1891 he moved to Macau , where he became a port captain and in 1893 a teacher at the local São José high school. There he married the Chinese Atchan (also Wong Yok Chan or Vong Io Chan ), with whom he had two sons. He made friends with the poet Camilo Pessanha and began his literary career with “Traços do Extremo Oriente - Sião, China e Japão”. During several trips to Japan, he got to know and love the country. In 1899 he was appointed Portuguese consul in Kobe and Osaka , leaving behind his wife, from whom he had separated years earlier, and children. In Kobe he married the geisha O-Yone Fukemoto in 1899. On August 20, 1912, his Japanese wife died of a heart attack , after which he resigned from the consul office on June 10, 1913. He moved to Tokushima, where his wife's ashes were kept. In 1929 he died in Tokushima under circumstances that were not exactly clarified.

The Portuguese director Paulo Branco shot the feature film "Insel der Liebe" in 1982, which reproduces the life of Wenceslau de Moraes in great detail and was also broadcast on German television. On November 23, 2000, an asteroid was named after Wenceslau de Morães: (63068) Moraes .

Works

  • "Traços do Extremo Oriente - Sião, China e Japão" (1895)
  • "Dai Nippon" - Great Japan (1897) - main work
  • "Cartas do Japão" (1904)
  • "O Culto do Chá" (1905)
  • "Os Serões no Japão" (1905 and 1925)
  • "A vida japonesa" (1907)
  • "O" Bon-Odori "in Tokushima . Caderno de impressões íntimas "(1911 and 1916)
  • "O tiro do meio-dia" (1919)
  • "Ó-Yoné e Ko-Haru" (1923)
  • "Paisagens da China e do Japão" (1924)
  • "Relance da história do Japão" (1924)
  • "Serões no Japão" (1926)
  • "Relance da Alma Japoneza" (1928)

literature

  • Major works of Spanish and Portuguese literature, Knauer's literary dictionary.

swell

  1. ↑ IMDB entry
  2. ^ Dai Nippon - The Great Japan (1897), online at books.google.com
  3. ↑ Cartas do Japão (1904), online at books.google.com
  4. ↑ Paisagens da China e do Japão (1924), online at books.google.com

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personal data
SURNAME Morães, Wenceslau de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morães, Wenceslaus José de Sousa; Morães, Wenceslao de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1929
Place of death Tokushima