Yoshida Seiichi

Yoshida Seiichi ( Japanese 吉田 精一 ; born November 12, 1908 in Tōkyō ; died June 9, 1984 ) was a Japanese expert on modern Japanese literature.

life and work

Yoshida Seiichi graduated from Tōkyō University in 1932 . After teaching at a college, he became a professor at Takushoku University in 1940 . In 1948 he founded, together with the literary expert Homma Hisao (本 間 久 雄; 1886–1981) and others, the "Society for Contemporary Japanese Literature" (日本 近代 文学 会), of which he became the first president.

In 1956 Yoshida was awarded the "Promotion Prize of the Minister of Education" (芸 術 選 奨 文 部 大臣 賞, Geijutsu senshō Mombudaijin-shō). In 1959 he received the Academy of Arts Prize for his two-volume work "Shizenshugi no kenkyū" (自然 主義 の 研究), for example "Investigations on the Principle of Nature", in which he dealt with naturalistic literature at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1967 he became a professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Tōkyō University. In 1969 he was retired as planned and took over a professorship at Saitama University . In 1974 he moved to the "Otsuma Women's University" (大 妻 女子 大学), which in 1984 named him "Meiyō Kyōju". In 1983 he had already become a member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences .

Other works include "Akutagawa Ryūnosuke" (1942), a critical biography about the writer Akutagawa , a ten-volume annotated Natsume Sōseki edition and "Kindai bungaku hyōron-shi: Meiji-hen" (近代 文学 評論 史 - 明治 編), for example "History of literary criticism - Meiji period". His collected works (25 volumes) were published from 1979 to 1981 as "Yoshida Seiichi chosakushū" (吉田 精一 著作 集).

Remarks

1. ↑ Meiyo Kyōju (名誉 教授) is occasionally rendered in German as "Professor emeritus". But in contrast to this title, which is automatically used on retirement, this is a special award only occasionally granted in Japan.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Yoshida Seiichi . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1757.

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