Yosano Tekkan

Yosano Tekkan, 1933/34

Yosano Tekkan with his wife, the writer Akiko Yosano

Yosano Tekkan ( Japanese 与 謝 野 鉄 幹 , real name: Yosano Hiroshi ( 与 謝 野 寛 ); born February 26, 1873 in Kyōto ; † March 26, 1935 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Yosano came as a poet from the movement for the renewal of the tanka poetry around the writer Ochiai Naobumi . He published a collection of his own tankas in 1896 under the title Tōzai Nanboku ( 東西 南北 ). In 1899 he founded the poetry magazine Myōjō ( 明星 ), in which poems were published in the romantic style and which existed until 1908. In 1901 he married the poet Yosano Akiko , who supported him in editing his literary magazine and published her own poems there. Yosano also published a collection of literary reviews under the title Bokoku no on (1894). The politician Kaoru Yosano is his grandson.

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• Janine Beichman: Masaoka Shiki : His Life and Works . Cheng & Tsui, 2002, ISBN 0-88727-364-5 , pp. 77 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Akiko Yosano: Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: a feminist poet from Japan encounters prewar china . Columbia University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-231-12319-1 , pp. 2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - original title: 満 蒙 遊記 ( Man-Mō Yūki ) . Translated by Joshua A. Fogel).
• Evelyn Schulz: Nagai Kafū : “Diary of a Homecoming”: The design of aesthetic alternative worlds as a criticism of the modernization of Japan . LIT Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3487-5 , p. 75 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 1058 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).

Web links

• Digital copies of his works at Aozora (Japanese)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yosano is the family name, Tekkan the first name.