Yamamoto Kenkichi
Yamamoto Kenkichi ( Japanese 山 本 健 吉 , aka: Ishibashi Sadakichi ( 石橋 貞 吉 ); born April 26, 1907 , † May 7, 1988 ) was a Japanese literary scholar .
Life
Yamamoto studied at Keiō University with Orikuchi Nobuo and was employed by the magazine Haiku kenkyū ( 俳 句 研究 ). From 1939 he published a series of studies under the title Watakushi-shishosetsu sakka ron ( 私小説作家論 , About the authors of I-novels) in the journal Hihyō ( 批評 ). In 1955 an analysis of the history of Japanese literature was published under the title Koten to gendai bungaku (Classical and Modern Literature).
For his three-volume study Bashō: sono kanshō to hihyō ( 芭蕉 そ の 鑑賞 と 批評 , On the Haiku Poetry Matsuo Bashōs ), published 1955-56, Yamamoto received the Shinchō Literature Prize . He presented a two-volume complete edition of the Haikus Bashōs in 1974. For Koten to gendai-bungaku he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 1955 . Other writings were Shōsetsu no saihakken (The Rediscovery of Fiction, 1962), Shi no jikaku no rekishi (The Story of Poetic Self-Experience, 1979) and Inochi to katachi (Life and Form, 1981), for which he was awarded the Noma Literature Prize in 1981 . In 1983 he was awarded the Japanese Order of Culture .
Yamamoto was married to the poet Ishibashi Hideno .
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- S. Noma (Ed.): Yamamoto Kenkichit . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1730.
- Makoto Ueda: Bashō and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary . Stanford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8047-2526-8 , pp. 425 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- The Japanese Literature Home Page - Modern Japanese Authors, T - Z ( Memento from August 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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SURNAME | Yamamoto, Kenkichi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山 本 健 吉 (Japanese); Ishibashi, Sadakichi (real name); 石橋 貞 吉 (real name, Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1907 |
DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1988 |