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 )

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Yamamoto is the family name, Kenkichi the first name.