Chūya Nakahara

Chuya Nakahara (Japanese中原 中 也born April 29, 1907 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, † October 22, 1937 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese poet.

Life

Nakahara wrote his first poems as eight years old, sent as an elementary school student tankas to literary journals and shared with a friend published a collection of poems ( Sugurono ). In 1923 he came to the middle school to Kyoto, where he was known by Takahashi Shinkichi with Dadaism.

In 1925 he came to study in Tokyo. Here he met and Ooka Shohei Kawakami Tetsutaro, with whom he founded the literary journal Hakuchigun. In the journal he published in rapid succession his own poems, as well as work published in literary magazines such as Shiki, Bungakukai and Rekitei. His works, which were outside the mainstream of Japanese poetry of the time were, except by literary critics as Hideo Kobayashi and Kawakami Tetsutaro hardly noticed.

After the death of his child Nakahara 1936 suffered a nervous breakdown. He died the following year thirty year before the publication of his second collection of poems Arishi Hi no Uta, on which he had worked until recently.