Yoshii Isamu
Count Yoshii Isamu ( Japanese 吉 井 勇 ; * October 8, 1886 in the Shiba district (now part of Minato ), Tokyo Prefecture ; † November 19, 1960 in Kyōto , Kyōto Prefecture ) was a Japanese poet and playwright.
Yoshii studied at Waseda University and worked for the magazine Myōjō of the Tōkyō Shinshisha ("Tokyo Society for New Literature"), who u. a. Mori Ōgai , Ueda Bin and Kitahara Hakushū belonged to. He later left the company and founded the group Pan no kai with Kitahara . In 1909 he founded the literary journal Subaru with Mori .
In the following years, Yoshii published several collections of poetry with which he established himself as a tanka poet, including Sakehogai ( 酒 ほ が ひ ; 1910), Gion kashū ( 祇 園 歌集 ; 1915) and Tōkyō kōtō shū ( 東京 紅燈 集 ; 1916) . In the 1920s he published plays for the Shingeki (new theater) movement in Subaru magazine . From the mid-1920s he also wrote dramas for the radio such as Saigo no Seppun ( 最後 の 接吻 ), Gekijō Iriguchi no Hanjikan ( 劇場 入口 の 半 時間 ), Kamome no Shigai ( 鴎 の 死 骸 ) and Ame no Yobanashi ( 雨 の 夜話 ).
Isamu died of lung cancer in Kyoto in 1960. However, his grave is in the Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo. The book collection and the poet's estate are kept in the collective archives of Kyoto Prefecture .
literature
- Scott J. Miller: The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7615-6 , pp. 146 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
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| SURNAME | Yoshii, Isamu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 吉 井 勇 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shiba (now: Minato ), Tokyo Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1960 |
| Place of death | Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture |