Horiguchi Daigaku

Horiguchi Daigaku (Japanese堀 口 大学; born January 8, 1892 in Tokyo, † 15 March 1981) was a Japanese poet and translator.

Horiguchi began his career as a writer of tanka verses and entered 1909 Shinshisha ( New Poetic Society) at. Since 1910, he studied literature at Keio University and has published poems in the University Journal Mita Bungaku and Subaru, the journal of Shinshisha.

In 1911 he went with his father, a diplomat, to Mexico and lived in the next fourteen years there, in Belgium, Spain and Brazil. He learned French at the time and was particularly interested in the works of the Symbolists. In 1919, he published two volumes of poetry: Gekko to Pierrot (月光 と ピエロ, " Moonlight and Pierrot " ) and Pan no Fue (パン の 笛, " Pan Flute ").

After his return to Japan in 1925 he published a collection of poetry translations under the title Gekka no ichigun (月下 の 一群) and founded the poetry magazine Pantheon and Orpheon. Later he was also very much appreciated as a translator of French poetry, the poetry of Paul Verlaine, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau and Paul Morand crotchless la nuit.

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