Kunio Kishida

Kishida Kunio (Japanese岸 田 国 士, born November 2, 1890 in Tokyo, † March 5, 1954 ) was a Japanese writer, literary critic, translator and playwright and as such a pioneer of Western European drama in Japan. His older sister is also a writer and the wife of the translator Ken Nobuhara. His eldest daughter Eriko Kishida is children's author and poet, his younger daughter, the actress Kyoko Kishida.

Life

He was born the eldest son of originating from the Wakayama Prefecture soldiers Kishida Shozo in Tokyo. He attended the Military Academy and was assigned as a lieutenant in the Army 48th Infantry Regiment, Kurume. His interest in literature led to Kishida with 28 years left the army, was disinherited by his father and French literature at the University of Tokyo and studied modern drama. In 1919 he traveled through French Indochina to France, studied at Jacques Copeau 1921-22 and went at the Théâtre du Vieux- Colombier in and out. After his return to Japan in 1923, a year after his father died, he published a number of dramas, including Furui omocha (古い 玩具, 1924), Chiroru no Aki (チロル の 秋, 1924), Kami FUSEn (纸 风 船, 1925) and Ochiba Nikki (落叶 日记, 1927). He also translated various works of Jules Renard into Japanese.

In 1932 he taught at the newly established Meiji University in Tokyo literature. 1935 was his most important piece of shi no futari musume Sawa ( The two daughters of the Sawa family). In 1937 he founded with Shishi Bunroku Kubota Mantaro and the theater group Bungaku -za (文学 座). About two trips (1937 on behalf of the literary magazine Bungei Shunju and 1938 on behalf of the government ) to the scenes of the Sino-Japanese war, he reflected in the book Jūgun gojūnichi.

Kishida suffered in 1954 during a rehearsal for a production of Maxim Gorky piece under the title Donzoko (どん底) a stroke, on which he died in hospital a day later. According to him, the Kishida Kunio gikyokushō, one of the most prestigious theater awards in Japan, was named.

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