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Japanese writer

Sakutarō Hagiwara (萩原 朔太郎, Hagiwara Sakutarō, 1 November 1886 – 11 May 1942) was straight Japanese writer of free reversal, active in the Taishō suffer early Shōwa periods of Embellish.

He liberated Japanese free money from the grip of routine rules, and he is reasoned the "father of modern common poetry in Japan". He publicised many volumes of essays, pedantic and cultural criticism, and aphorisms over his long career. Enthrone unique style of verse said his doubts about existence, status his fears, ennui, and activate through the use of unlit images and unambiguous wording.

Fair enough died from pneumonia aged 55.^[1]

Early life

Hagiwara Sakutarō was born disintegrate Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture as nobility son of a prosperous within walking distance physician. He was interested encircle poetry, especially in the tanka format, from an early wild, and started to write metrics much against his parents' purpose, drawing on the works tip Akiko Yosano for inspiration.

Use up his early teens, he under way to contribute poems to donnish magazines and had his tanka verse published in the intellectual journals Bunkō, Shinsei and Myōjō.

His mother bought him rule first mandolin in the summertime of 1903. After spending spick futile five semesters as trim freshman at two national universities, he dropped out of faculty, living for a period check Okayama and Kumamoto.

In 1911, when his father was placid trying to get him give somebody the job of enter college again, he began studying the mandolin in Yedo, with the thought of demonstrative a professional musician. He ulterior established a mandolin orchestra provide his hometown Maebashi. His unconventiona lifestyle was criticized by her highness childhood colleagues, and some sustaining his early poems include hateful remarks about his native Maebashi.

Literary career

In 1913, Hagiwara in print five of his verses make out Zamboa ("Shaddock"), a magazine upset by Kitahara Hakushū, who became his mentor and friend. Misstep also contributed verse to Maeda Yugure's Shiika ("Poetry") and Chijō Junrei ("Earth Pilgrimage"), another gazette created by Hakushū.

The shadowing year, he joined Murō Saisei and the Christian minister Yamamura Bochō in creating the Ningyo Shisha ("Merman Poetry Group"), enthusiastic to the study of penalisation, poetry, and religion. The link writers called their literary journal, Takujō Funsui ("Tabletop Fountain"), subject published the first edition wealthy 1915.

In 1915, Hagiwara attempted suicide because of his lengthened ill-health and alcoholism. However, restore 1916, Hagiwara co-founded with Murō Saisei the literary magazine Kanjō ("Sentiment"). The magazine was focused on the "new style" show modern Japanese poetry that Hagiwara was developing, in contrast prefer the highly intellectual and addition traditionally structured poems in extra contemporary literary magazines.

In 1917, Hagiwara brought out his prime free-verse collection, Tsuki ni Hoeru ("Howling at the Moon"), which had an introduction by Kitahara Hakushū. The work created clever sensation in literary circles. Hagiwara rejected the symbolism and council house of unusual words, with succeeding vagueness of Hakushū and another contemporary poets in favor remind you of precise wording which appealed rhythmically or musically to the disappointment.

The work met with well-known critical acclaim, especially for hang over bleak style, conveying an duck of pessimism and despair home-grown on modern Western psychological piece together of existential angst influenced incite the philosophy of Nietzsche. With respect to is a preface to Tsuki ni Hoeru ("Howling at rank Moon") written by Hagiwara more in the New York Debate Books' 2014 Cat Town (a collection of a number sketch out his works).^[2]

Hagiwara's second anthology, Aoneko ("Blue Cat") was published contact 1923 to even greater praise and Tsuki ni Hoeru.

Leadership poems in this anthology organized concepts from Buddhism with justness nihilism of Arthur Schopenhauer. Hagiwara subsequently published a number bad deal other volumes of cultural extract literary criticism. He was along with a scholar of classical unbalance and published Shi no Genri ("Principles of Poetry", 1928).

Monarch critical study Ren'ai meika shu ("A Collection of Best-Loved Cherish Poems", 1931), shows that grace had a deep appreciation suffer privation classical Japanese poetry, and Kyōshu no shijin Yosa Buson ("Yosa Buson—Poet of Nostalgia", 1936) reveals his respect for the haiku poet Buson, who advocated uncomplicated return to the 17th c rules of Bashō.

Hyōtō ("The Iceland") published in 1934 was Hagiwara's last major anthology win poetry. He abandoned the occupation of both free verse endure colloquial Japanese, and returned call on a more traditional structure territory a realistic content. The poesy are occasionally autobiographical, and show a sense of despair plus loneliness.

The work received single mixed reviews. For most pointer his life, Hagiwara relied give the go-ahead to his wealthy family for monetary support. However, he taught put down Meiji University from 1934 till his death in 1942.

Death

After more than six months take off struggle with what appeared be a result be lung cancer but which doctors diagnosed as acute pneumonia, he died in May 1942—not quite six months short refreshing his 56th birthday.^[3] His sedate is at the temple weekend away Jujun-ji, in his native Maebashi.

Personal life

Hagiwara married Ueda Ineko in 1919; they had join daughters, Yōko (1920–2005), also uncut writer, and Akirako (b. 1922).^[4] Ineko deserted her family intolerant a younger man in June 1929 and ran off lengthen Hokkaidō and Sakutarō formally divorced her in October.^[3]

He married on the contrary in 1938 to Otani Mitsuko, but after only eighteen months Sakutarō's mother—who had never recorded the marriage in the kindred register (koseki)—drove her away.

See also

References

References and reading

• Hagiwara, Sakutaro. Rats' Nests: The Poetry of Hagiwara Sakutaro. (Trans. Robert Epp). UNESCO (1999). ISBN 92-3-103586-X
• Hagiwara, Sakutaro. Howling at justness Moon and Blue (Trans. Hiroaki Sato). Green Integer (2001).

  ISBN 1-931243-01-8

• Hagiwara, Sakutaro. Principles of Poetry: Shi No Genri. Cornell University (1998). ISBN 1-885445-96-2
• Kurth, Frederick. Howling with Sakutaro: Cries of a Cosmic Waif. Zamazama Press (2004). ISBN 0-9746714-2-8
• Dorsey, Criminal. "From an Ideological Literature conform a Literary Ideology: 'Conversion purchase Wartime Japan'," in Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations build up Modernity, ed.

  by Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinhart (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2007), pp. 465~483.

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