Yamamura Bocho
Yamamura Bochō ( Japanese 山村 暮 鳥 , real name: Tsujida Hakujū 土 田 八 九十 , maiden name: 志 村 ; * January 10, 1884 in Nagaoka ; † December 8, 1924 ) was a Japanese poet and author of books for young people.
Life
After a childhood full of privation as the son of a peasant family, Yamamura became a Catholic priest. In 1915 he published Sei sanryō hari (Sacred Prisms), a collection of experimental poems shaped by the influence of Charles Baudelaire , whose works he had read in English translation. With this work, he joined the founders of literary symbolism in Japan. In 1924, at the age of forty, he died of complications from tuberculosis.
Works
- At some point . Translated by Otto Putz
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- Miryam Sas: "Fault lines: cultural memory and Japanese surrealism" , Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780804736497 , p. 18 f
- Günter Berghaus: "International futurism in arts and literature" , Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 9783110156812 , p. 254
Web links
- Works at Aozora (Japanese)
- Text edition of poems by Yamamura online (Japanese)
- Biographical summary at kotobank (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Booklets for East Asian Literature No. 45, 2008, pp. 9-10
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yamamura, Bocho |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山村 暮 鳥 (Japanese); Tsujida Hakujū (real name); 土 田 八 九十 (real name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagaoka |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1924 |