Bochō Yamamura

Yamamura bocho (Japanese山村 暮 鸟, real name: Tsujida Hakujū土 田 八 九十, Birth Name:志 村; born January 10, 1884 in Nagaoka, † December 8, 1924 ) was a Japanese poet and YA author.

Life

After a deprived childhood as the son of a peasant family Yamamura became a Catholic priest. In 1915 he published Be sanryō hari ( Holy prisms ), a collection of experimental poetry, marked by the influence of Charles Baudelaire, whose works he had read in English translation. With the work he ranked among the founders of literary symbolism in Japan. In 1924 he died forty year from the effects of tuberculosis.

Works

• Eventually. Translated by Otto Putz

Swell

• Günter Berghaus, " International futurism in arts and literature", Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 9783110156812, p 254