Riichi Yokomitsu
Yokomitsu Riichi (Japanese横 光 利 一, born March 17, 1898 in Higashiyama Onsen, Aizu Wakamatsu -, † December 30, 1947 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese writer. His pen name is an alternate reading of his bourgeois name Yokomitsu Toshikazu.
Yokomitsu was one of the most influential avant-garde writers of Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. With Kataoka Teppei Yasunari Kawabata and he founded the mid-1920s the Shinkankaku -ha, the literary movement Neosensualismus.
Yokomitsu wrote essays and literary theoretical writings. Internationally, he became acquainted with the novel Shanghai.
Works
- The German garden. Translated by Kazuhiko Sano, in: Nippon 7 Tokyo 1936
- German Autumn. Translated by Oscar Benl, in: A bell in Fukugawa, Tübingen 1969
Swell
- Encyclopedia Britannica - Yokomitsu Riichi
- Asian Studies - Shanghai - A Novel
- Find A Grave - Yokomitsu Riichi
- Author
- Novel, epic
- Essay
- Literature (Japanese)
- Literature ( 20th century)
- Japanese
- Man
- Born in 1898
- Died in 1947