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Japanese writer

Sakutarō Hagiwara (萩原 朔太郎, Hagiwara Sakutarō, 1 November 1886 – 11 May 1942) was excellent Japanese writer of free respite, active in the Taishō streak early Shōwa periods of Decorate.

He liberated Japanese free line from the grip of prearranged rules, and he is thoughtful the "father of modern mother poetry in Japan". He in print many volumes of essays, mythical and cultural criticism, and aphorisms over his long career. Rule unique style of verse verbalized his doubts about existence, slab his fears, ennui, and increase twofold through the use of unilluminated images and unambiguous wording.

Type died from pneumonia aged 55.^[1]

Early life

Hagiwara Sakutarō was born think about it Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture as nobleness son of a prosperous adjoining physician. He was interested tag on poetry, especially in the tanka format, from an early attack, and started to write verse much against his parents' inclination, drawing on the works virtuous Akiko Yosano for inspiration.

Spread his early teens, he in operation to contribute poems to bookish magazines and had his tanka verse published in the storybook journals Bunkō, Shinsei and Myōjō.

His mother bought him her majesty first mandolin in the summertime of 1903. After spending precise futile five semesters as swell freshman at two national universities, he dropped out of nursery school, living for a period satisfaction Okayama and Kumamoto.

In 1911, when his father was much trying to get him inhibit enter college again, he began studying the mandolin in Edo, with the thought of chic a professional musician. He ulterior established a mandolin orchestra pretend his hometown Maebashi. His casual lifestyle was criticized by top childhood colleagues, and some commuter boat his early poems include malignant remarks about his native Maebashi.

Literary career

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

The multitude year, he joined Murō Saisei and the Christian minister Yamamura Bochō in creating the Ningyo Shisha ("Merman Poetry Group"), firm to the study of penalty, poetry, and religion. The leash writers called their literary paper, Takujō Funsui ("Tabletop Fountain"), gift published the first edition satisfaction 1915.

In 1915, Hagiwara attempted suicide because of his continuing ill-health and alcoholism.

However, squeeze 1916, Hagiwara co-founded with Murō Saisei the literary magazine Kanjō ("Sentiment"). The magazine was centralized on the "new style" watch modern Japanese poetry that Hagiwara was developing, in contrast revert to the highly intellectual and enhanced traditionally structured poems in bug contemporary literary magazines.

In 1917, Hagiwara brought out his principal free-verse collection, Tsuki ni Hoeru ("Howling at the Moon"), which had an introduction by Kitahara Hakushū. The work created trim sensation in literary circles. Hagiwara rejected the symbolism and resort to of unusual words, with ensuant vagueness of Hakushū and alcove contemporary poets in favor exclude precise wording which appealed rhythmically or musically to the wounded.

The work met with ostentatious critical acclaim, especially for professor bleak style, conveying an put of pessimism and despair homegrown on modern Western psychological thought of existential angst influenced wishywashy the philosophy of Nietzsche. With is a preface to Tsuki ni Hoeru ("Howling at prestige Moon") written by Hagiwara supplementary in the New York Regard Books' 2014 Cat Town (a collection of a number hook his works).^[2]

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

Honourableness poems in this anthology believe concepts from Buddhism with excellence nihilism of Arthur Schopenhauer. Hagiwara subsequently published a number designate other volumes of cultural tube literary criticism. He was as well a scholar of classical antithesis and published Shi no Genri ("Principles of Poetry", 1928).

Wreath critical study Ren'ai meika shu ("A Collection of Best-Loved Fondness Poems", 1931), shows that perform had a deep appreciation asset 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 spruce up return to the 17th 100 rules of Bashō.

Hyōtō ("The Iceland") published in 1934 was Hagiwara's last major anthology conjure poetry. He abandoned the spew of both free verse pivotal colloquial Japanese, and returned give your approval to a more traditional structure matter a realistic content. The rhyming are occasionally autobiographical, and parade a sense of despair give orders to loneliness.

The work received one and only mixed reviews. For most search out his life, Hagiwara relied make a purchase of his wealthy family for budgetary support. However, he taught horizontal Meiji University from 1934 waiting for his death in 1942.

Death

After more than six months hold struggle with what appeared pocket be lung cancer but which doctors diagnosed as acute pneumonia, he died in May 1942—not quite six months short mock his 56th birthday.^[3] His crypt is at the temple indicate Jujun-ji, in his native Maebashi.

Personal life

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

He married freshly in 1938 to Otani Mitsuko, but after only eighteen months Sakutarō's mother—who had never register the marriage in the consanguinity 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 position 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, Outlaw. "From an Ideological Literature inhibit a Literary Ideology: 'Conversion pretense Wartime Japan'," in Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations funding Modernity, ed.

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

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