JÅ«kichi Yagi

Yagi Jūkichi (Japanese八 木 重 吉; born February 9, 1898 in Tokyo, † October 26, 1927 ) was a Japanese poet.

Life

During his school years in Kamagura Yagi joined the Methodist church and learned the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore know. In 1919, he was baptized in the Christian Church Komagome. He remained throughout his life a devout Christian, but turned under the influence of Uchimura kanzo the Mukyōkai movement to.

In 1921 he became a teacher at the Mikage - school in the Hyōgo Prefecture. During this period he created his first religious poems. His first collection of poems Aki no Hitomi (秋 の 瞳) appeared in 1925, and he joined the group of poets Shi no Ie by Sato Sonosuke. Individual poems have appeared in journals such as Nihon Shijin.

1926 Yagi ill with tuberculosis, he died in late 1927. Only after his death, he was with the publication of books of poetry Mazushiki Shinto (貧しき 信徒), Yagi Jūkichi Shishu (八 木 重 吉 全 诗集) and Kami o Yobo (神 を 呼ぼ う) widely known as a poet.

Works

• Ger from the poems of a poor man, translated by Kuniyoshi Takayasu, in: Call of the plover. Japanese poetry from two thousand years, Bechtle Verlag, Munich, 1961
• German Ball and plate spinning top, translated by Shin Aizu, in: The Moody loading crane, St. Gallen, Tschudy, 1960

Swell

• Kamakura City, Kamakura 's Literary Figures - Biography