Yagi Jūkichi

Yagi Jūkichi (1922)

Yagi Jūkichi ( Japanese 八 木 重 吉 ; born February 9, 1898 in Machida , Tokyo Prefecture ; † October 26, 1927 ) was a Japanese poet.

Career

During his school days in Kamagura, Yagi joined the Methodist Church and learned the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore . In 1919 he was baptized in the Christian Komagome Church. He remained a devout Christian throughout his life, but turned to the Mukyōkai movement under the influence of Uchimura Kanzo .

In 1921 he became a teacher at the Mikage School in Hyōgo Prefecture . During this time he wrote his first religious poems. His first collection of poems Aki no Hitomi ( 秋 の 瞳 ) appeared in 1925, and he joined the group of poets Shi no Ie around Sato Sonosuke . Individual poems have appeared in magazines such as Nihon Shijin .

In 1926 Yagi fell ill with tuberculosis, to which he succumbed in late 1927. It was only after his death that he became known to a wider public as a poet with the publication of the volumes of poetry Mazushiki Shinto ( 貧 し き 信徒 ), Yagi Jūkichi Shishū ( 八 木 重 吉 全 詩集 ) and Kami o Yobō ( 神 を 呼 ぼ う ).

Works

• dt. From the poems of a poor man, translated by Kuniyo Takayasu, in: Ruf der Regenpfeifer. Japanese poetry from two millennia, Bechtle Verlag, Munich, 1961
• German ball and tin top, translated by Shin Aizu, in: The melancholy loading crane, St. Gallen, Tschudy, 1960

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• Kamakura City, Kamakura´s Literary Figures - Biography ( Memento from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Works by Aozora Bunko (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 八 木 重 吉 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed December 7, 2011 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Japanese Literature in Translation Search. 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.  

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