Yamamoto Yūzō

Yamamoto Yūzō, 1938

Yamamoto Yūzō ( Japanese 山 本 有 三 , real name: 山 本 勇 造 at the same reading; * July 27, 1887 in Tochigi Prefecture ; † January 11, 1974 in Atami ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

The son of a kimono dealer studied German at the Imperial University of Tokyo . In 1920 he made his debut with the play Inochi no kanmuri ( 生命 の 冠 ). With Kikuchi Kan and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke he founded a writers' association and published the literary magazine Shinshichō . During the Second World War he had to stop working on his story Robō no ishi due to state censorship . In addition to other dramas (including Eiji-koroshi , 1920 and 同志 の 人 々 , Dōshi no hitobito , 1923) he also published children's books and novels such as Nami ("Waves", 1928), Onna no isshō ( 女 の 一生 , 1932), Shinjitsu ichiro ("The right way", 1935) and Robō no ishi ( 路傍 の 石 , 1937). In 1965 he was awarded the Imperial Order of Culture as a person with special cultural merits .

Works (selection)

• 1924 Eiji-koroshi ( 嬰 児 殺 し )
  • "The child murderer", translated by Hisashi Kojima. In: Kesa and Morito. The Child Murderer , Tokyo, 1959, pp. 23–51
• 1924 Honzon ( 本尊 )
  • "Buddha", translated by Hermann Bohner . In: Ceremony of the German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia on the 70th birthday of Professor Dr. Karl Florenz a, Jan. 10, 1935 , No. 25, Tokyo, 1935, pp. 31-42
• 1928 Nami ( 波 )
  • "Waves", translated by Waichi Sakurai. Stuttgart, Cotta, 1938
• 1931 Nyonin Aishi: Tōjin Okichi Monogatari, applies in the English translation by Glenn W. Shaw as the template for the play Die Judith von Shimoda, which is ascribed to Bertolt Brecht
• 1935 Shinjitsu ichiro ( 真 実 一路 )
  • “The right way”, translated by Shin'ichi Hoshino and Hertha Jahn. Tokyo, 1960
• 1949 Buji no hito ( 無 事 の 人 )
  • “A balanced person”, translated by Erich Holubowsky. In: Yamamoto Yūzō and his work Buji no hito , Vienna, 1975, pp. 106–228
• Tete oya ( 父親 )
  • "Father", translated by Hermann Bohner . In: Yamato , No. 3, Tokyo, 1931, pp. 280-296

swell

• j.lit - Biographies of modern Japanese authors TZ
• J. Scott Miller, "The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater," Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, ISBN 9780810876156 , pp. 142-43
• * S. Noma (Ed.): Yamamoto Yūzō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1731.

Web links

• Yûzô Yamamoto Memorial Museum (Japanese)

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