Makoto ÅŒoka

Makoto Ooka (Japanese大 冈 信, Ooka Makoto, born February 16, 1931 in Mishima / Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese poet and literary scholar.

Life

Ooka studied until 1953 Japanese literature at the University of Tokyo. He then worked for ten years for the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. In 1965 he started at Meiji University to teach and received in 1970 a professorship. From 1988 to 1994 he was professor at the University of Tokyo arts. He also served from 1979 to 1981 the " Japanese Society for contemporary poetry " and from 1989 to 1994, the PEN Center Japan.

As a poet Ooka 1956 Genzai debuted with the poetry Kioku to. In English translation, the poetry collections A String Around Autumn (1981) and Elegy and Benediction published (1991). However, he was known primarily for his literary writings as Chōgenjitsu to Jojo (1965) and Kotoba no chikara (1971 ), which were also translated into English and French ( and Others The Colors of Poetry: Essays in Classic Japanese Verse, 1991 ). He received the 1971 Yomiuri Prize for Literature for Ki no Tsurayuki and 1996, the Asahi Prize. In 1976 he was one of the candidates for the Grand Prix for Japanese literature. In Carl Hanser Verlag released in 2000 poetry and poetics of ancient Japan. Five lectures at the College de France.

Swell

• Merriam- Webster's Encyclopedia Of Literature, Merriam -Webster's, 1995, ISBN 9780877790426, p 837
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Makoto Ooka
• Pearl - Makoto Ooka
• La Littérature Japonaise - Makoto Ooka
• The Japan Foundation Awards / Special Prizes (2002) - Makoto Ooka profiles

• Author
• Poetry
• Literary scholar
• Literature (Japanese)
• Japanese
• Born in 1931
• Man
• University teachers ( Tokyo Prefecture)