Mokichi SaitÅ
Saitō Mokichi (Japanese斎 藤 茂 吉; born February 14, 1882 in Kanakame, Minamimurayama -gun (now Kaminoyama ), Yamagata Prefecture as Moriya Mokichi (守 谷 茂 吉), † February 25, 1952 ) was a Japanese psychiatrist, tanka poet and essayist.
Life
Born as the third son of the farmer Moriya Kumajirō, he became the related Saitō family sent to Tokyo to study at the Kasei Middle School. In 1905 he married into this, and began impressed by Shiki Masaokas poetry collection Take no Satouta writing.
The following year he became a student of Itō Sachio, and later a founding member of the literary magazine Araragi (1908), of which he later took. He published a total of 17 volumes of poetry, essays, among others also on Japanese folklore. His oeuvre comprises 56 volumes. He was awarded the 1949 Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 1952 and as a person with special cultural merits ( Bunka Kōrōsha ).
After studying medicine in Tokyo Saitō studied between 1921 and 1924 in Vienna and Munich. His report of this time ( " bugs Diary " ) was published in 2011 in German translation published by Herder. After his return to Japan, he built the hospital burned down his father again and worked as a psychiatrist. As a practitioner of Akutagawa Ryūnosukes family he supported this in his suicide.
Saito's eldest son was the psychiatrist and essayist Shigeta Saitō (1916-2006), his second son, the psychiatrist and poet Morio Kita ( 1927-2011 ). His daughter, Yuka Saitō (born 1962 ) was known as an essayist.