Aizu Yaichi

Yaichi Aizu (Japanese会 津 八一, Kyūjitai会 津 八一; born August 1, 1881 † November 21, 1956 ) was a Japanese literary historian and poet.

Life

Aizu graduated from Waseda University with a thesis on the English romantics John Keats. From 1913 he gave lectures here on the poetry Keats ' and classical Greek poetry. Since the early 1920s, he also dealt with the literary history of the Nara period. He founded in 1920 the Japanese Greece Society ( Nihon Girischa Gakkai ) and 1923 a Society for the Exploration of the Nara Art ( Nara Bijutsu Kenkyu Kai ).

After 1926 he taught eastern art history at his alma mater.

In addition, Aizu emerged as antique- author tanka poems. His most famous collection of poems was published in 1924 under the title Nankyō Shinsho, other works have included Rokumeishū (1940 ) and shusho Dōjin no shō. For Aizu Yaichi zenkashū 1951 he received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. His oeuvre was published in nine volumes.

Swell

• Kambayashi Tsunemichi: "The Aesthetics of Aizu Yaichi " in Michael F. Farra: "A history of modern Japanese aesthetics", University of Hawaii Press, 2001, ISBN 9780824823993, pp. 133-148
• Edith Marcombe Shiffert, Yuki Sawa: " Anthology of modern Japanese poetry", reprint Tuttle Publishing, 1972, ISBN 9780804806725, p 184
• Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, page 14 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).