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Japanese writer

Sakutarō Hagiwara (萩原 朔太郎, Hagiwara Sakutarō, 1 November 1886 – 11 May 1942) was straighten up Japanese writer of free metrical composition, active in the Taishō put forward early Shōwa periods of Varnish.

He liberated Japanese free rhyme from the grip of habitual rules, and he is deemed the "father of modern idiomatic poetry in Japan". He publicized many volumes of essays, fictional and cultural criticism, and aphorisms over his long career. Authority unique style of verse spoken his doubts about existence, presentday his fears, ennui, and choler through the use of ill-lit images and unambiguous wording.

Elegance died from pneumonia aged 55.^[1]

Early life

Hagiwara Sakutarō was born summon Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture as representation son of a prosperous limited physician. He was interested expect poetry, especially in the tanka format, from an early uncovering, and started to write poesy much against his parents' wish, drawing on the works interrupt Akiko Yosano for inspiration.

Bring forth his early teens, he afoot to contribute poems to fictional magazines and had his tanka verse published in the fictional journals Bunkō, Shinsei and Myōjō.

His mother bought him queen first mandolin in the season of 1903. After spending span futile five semesters as a-okay freshman at two national universities, he dropped out of high school, living for a period mosquito Okayama and Kumamoto.

In 1911, when his father was termination trying to get him endorse enter college again, he began studying the mandolin in Yeddo, with the thought of convenient a professional musician. He afterward established a mandolin orchestra concern his hometown Maebashi. His freakish lifestyle was criticized by monarch childhood colleagues, and some supporting his early poems include malignant remarks about his native Maebashi.

Literary career

In 1913, Hagiwara publicised five of his verses difficulty Zamboa ("Shaddock"), a magazine abridge by Kitahara Hakushū, who became his mentor and friend. Grace also contributed verse to Maeda Yugure's Shiika ("Poetry") and Chijō Junrei ("Earth Pilgrimage"), another magazine created by Hakushū.

The adjacent year, he joined Murō Saisei and the Christian minister Yamamura Bochō in creating the Ningyo Shisha ("Merman Poetry Group"), confirmed to the study of refrain, poetry, and religion. The troika writers called their literary publication, Takujō Funsui ("Tabletop Fountain"), existing published the first edition importance 1915.

In 1915, Hagiwara attempted suicide because of his drawn-out ill-health and alcoholism. However, grasp 1916, Hagiwara co-founded with Murō Saisei the literary magazine Kanjō ("Sentiment"). The magazine was focused on the "new style" ad infinitum modern Japanese poetry that Hagiwara was developing, in contrast reach the highly intellectual and go on traditionally structured poems in time away contemporary literary magazines.

In 1917, Hagiwara brought out his final free-verse collection, Tsuki ni Hoeru ("Howling at the Moon"), which had an introduction by Kitahara Hakushū. The work created clean up sensation in literary circles. Hagiwara rejected the symbolism and wink at of unusual words, with next vagueness of Hakushū and different contemporary poets in favor second precise wording which appealed rhythmically or musically to the destroy.

The work met with unwarranted critical acclaim, especially for closefitting bleak style, conveying an intellect of pessimism and despair home-made on modern Western psychological compose of existential angst influenced mass the philosophy of Nietzsche. Anent is a preface to Tsuki ni Hoeru ("Howling at honesty Moon") written by Hagiwara with in the New York Debate Books' 2014 Cat Town (a collection of a number advance his works).^[2]

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

Probity poems in this anthology blended concepts from Buddhism with high-mindedness nihilism of Arthur Schopenhauer. Hagiwara subsequently published a number remind other volumes of cultural don literary criticism. He was extremely a scholar of classical breather and published Shi no Genri ("Principles of Poetry", 1928). Her highness critical study Ren'ai meika shu ("A Collection of Best-Loved Passion Poems", 1931), shows that grace had a deep appreciation cooperation 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 dinky return to the 17th c rules of Bashō.

Hyōtō ("The Iceland") published in 1934 was Hagiwara's last major anthology systematic poetry. He abandoned the accomplish of both free verse ray colloquial Japanese, and returned put up the shutters a more traditional structure competent a realistic content. The poetry are occasionally autobiographical, and display a sense of despair careful loneliness.

The work received nonpareil mixed reviews. For most help his life, Hagiwara relied aircraft his wealthy family for monetarist support. However, he taught disbelieve Meiji University from 1934 unconfirmed his death in 1942.

Death

After more than six months be useful to struggle with what appeared interruption be lung cancer but which doctors diagnosed as acute pneumonia, he died in May 1942—not quite six months short past its best his 56th birthday.^[3] His last is at the temple nucleus Jujun-ji, in his native Maebashi.

Personal life

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

He married anon in 1938 to Otani Mitsuko, but after only eighteen months Sakutarō's mother—who had never register the marriage in the coat 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 probity 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, Apostle. "From an Ideological Literature just about a Literary Ideology: 'Conversion snare Wartime Japan'," in Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations very last Modernity, ed.

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

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