Riichi Yokomitsu

Yokomitsu Riichi (Japanese横 光 利 一, born March 17, 1898 in Higashiyama Onsen, Aizu Wakamatsu -, † December 30, 1947 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese writer. His pen name is an alternate reading of his bourgeois name Yokomitsu Toshikazu.

Yokomitsu was one of the most influential avant-garde writers of Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. With Kataoka Teppei Yasunari Kawabata and he founded the mid-1920s the Shinkankaku -ha, the literary movement Neosensualismus.

Yokomitsu wrote essays and literary theoretical writings. Internationally, he became acquainted with the novel Shanghai.

Works

  • The German garden. Translated by Kazuhiko Sano, in: Nippon 7 Tokyo 1936
  • German Autumn. Translated by Oscar Benl, in: A bell in Fukugawa, Tübingen 1969

Swell

  • Encyclopedia Britannica - Yokomitsu Riichi
  • Asian Studies - Shanghai - A Novel
  • Find A Grave - Yokomitsu Riichi
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Essay
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Japanese
  • Man
  • Born in 1898
  • Died in 1947
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