Kōda Rohan

Koda Rohan (Japanese幸 田 露 伴; born August 20, 1867 in Shitaya, Edo, today Tōkyō; † 30 July 1947 in Ichikawa ), Shigeyuki actually Koda (幸 田 成行), was a Japanese writer.

For the first time recognized for Fūryūbutsu, he cemented his place in the literary world with works like Gojunoto or Ummei. Together with Ozaki Koyo later he founded the so-called Koro - era (where Koro a portmanteau of Koyo and Rohan, the two proper names, is ).

Koda Rohan was a representative of classicism and trained in classical literature and religious teachings. He left besides numerous essays and historical novels and scientific treatises on classical literature.

The first award of the Order of Japanese culture in 1937 he was among the award winners. In 1943 he was awarded the Noma Literary Prize. Its his own shell ( Kagyu -an) called home, where he lived for ten years in Sumida, is now at the Open Air Museum Meiji Mura.

His daughter, Koda Aya, was also a writer.

Life

Koda Rohan was the son of a civil servant, who came from an impoverished samurai nobility line. He studied as a self-taught Chinese classics and Buddhist literature. He worked at the age of 15 years as a telegraph operator in Hokkaido, but went back to Tokyo after 2 years. There he had temporarily hold a university lectureship later, among others, but also since 1889 worked in the offices of the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.

Works

  • Fūryūbutsu (风流 仏), German title " The graceful Buddha", 1889.
  • Gojunoto (五 重 塔), German title "The five -story pagoda ", 1892.
  • Ummei (运 命), for German "fate", 1919.
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