Yamanokuchi Baku
Yamanokuchi Baku ( Japanese 山 之 口 貘 , real name: Yamaguchi Shūsaburō , 山口 重 三郎 ; born September 11, 1903 in Naha , Okinawa Prefecture ; † July 19, 1963 ) was a Japanese poet .
Yamanokuchi went to Tokyo in 1923, where he was in contact with writers such as Satō Haruo and Kaneko Mitsuharu . In 1936 he published his first volume of poetry Shiben no sono ( 思 弁 の 苑 ), which brought him great recognition. He dealt critically with the American occupation of his homeland Okinawa. In 1964 the volume of poems Maguro ni Iwashi ( 鮪 に 鰯 ) was published posthumously .
Web links
- Digital copies of his works at Aozora Bunko
- La Littérature Japonaise - Yamanoguchi Baku ( Memento of April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- j.lit - Biographies of modern Japanese authors TZ
- Christopher T. Nelson: "Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa" , Duke University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780822390077 , pp. 238 f
Individual evidence
- ↑ 山 之 口 貘 ・ 山 之 口 獏 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved April 14, 2014 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yamanokuchi, Baku |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山 之 口 貘 (Japanese); 山 之 口 獏 (Japanese, alternative spelling); Yamanoguchi Shūsaburō (real name); 山口 重 三郎 (real name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naha |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1963 |