Bokusui Wakayama

Wakayama Bokusui (Japanese若 山 牧 水real name: Shigeru Wakayama (若 山 繁); born August 24, 1885 in Miyazaki Prefecture, † September 17, 1928 ) was a Japanese writer.

Wakayama came under the influence of Yosano Tekkan emerged as the author of Tanka (including别离Betsuri, 1910). Of his many travels, he wrote travel reports in naturalistic style as Minakami Kiko (みなかみ 紀行; 1924). Together with Maeda Yugure he joined the group of artists founded by Onoe Saishu Shazensō -sha.

Works

• "Trees ," " Tanka ". Translated by Eduard Klopfenstein, in: Say ' I 's you, beloved trees. Texts from world literature. Edited by Frederico Hindermann, 1984, pp. 420-425, ISBN 3-7175-1672-8