Saneatsu MushanokÅji
Mushanokoji Saneatsu (Japanese武 者 小路 実 笃, also: Musha (无 车), Futōō (不倒翁), and others; born May 12, 1885 in the prefecture of Tokyo, † April 9, 1976 ibid ) was a Japanese writer and painter.
The Mushanokoji belonged to the nobility of the court. Saneatsus Saneyo father (1851-1887) was sent with the Iwakura Mission to study abroad. Originally intended for Russia, he studied in Germany. Although he died young, but also Saneatsu learned German and mastered it completely. During his studies at the Gakushuin University Mushanokoji be employed under the influence of his uncle Kadenokōji Sukekoto with the works of Leo Tolstoy. With Arishima Takeo, Shiga Naoya, Satomi Ton and Kinoshita Rigen 1910 he founded the literary and art magazine Shirakaba (白桦, " Birch "). The circle around Saneatsu enthusiastic not only for Rodin and other French, he also discovered the painter of painters colony Worpswede and corresponded with them. Heinrich Vogeler designed a title page for the journal.
His first novel Kōya (荒野, "wilderness" ) released 1908.
According to the ideas of Tolstoy, he founded in 1918 in Hyūga agricultural commune Atarashiki Mura (新しき 村), which he belonged until 1928 and still in existence today. After the great earthquake of 1923, the magazine Shirakaba their appearance one, Mushanokoji was however out more magazines, so Fuji (不二) with Nagayo Yoshirō, Daichōwa (大 调和) Dokuritsujin (独立 人) and Juko (重 光).
In 1925 he published several biographical novels, so Ninomiya Sontoku, a farmer and philosopher of the 19th century, and Saikaku, a poet of the 17th century. In addition, he worked successfully as a painter and gallery owner.
At the suggestion of his older brother Mushanokoji Kintomo, the Japanese ambassador was in the German Empire, undertook Mushanokoji 1936, a trip to Europe. After the Second World War, he became because of its proximity to the Japanese government in the review, but was soon active as a writer, painter and gallery owner.
It was in 1951 awarded the Japanese Order of Culture, made an honorary citizen of Tokyo. In all, he published more than 6000 works: novels, plays, poems and essays.
Works (selection)
- Kōya (荒野), novel, 1908, digitized by the National Library
- Omedetaki Hito (お 目出 たき 人), Roman, digitized by the National Library
- Seken Shirazu (世間 知らず), Roman
- Seicho (生长), essay
- Yūjo (友情), Roman
- Kōfuku mono (幸福 者), Roman
- Aru Otoko (或る 男), autobiographical novel
- Kohan no Gasho (湖畔 の 画商), essay
- Bijutsuronshū (美术 论 集), essay
- Shinri sensei (真理 先生), Roman
- Watakushi no Kaigara (私 の 貝殻), Roman
- Hitori no Otoko (一 人 の 男), Roman
Swell
- Kamakura City, Kamakura 's Literary Figures - Biography: Japanese, English
Website
- Website of the Mushanokoji Memorial (Japanese)
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- Literature ( 20th century)
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- Poetry
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- Born 1885
- Died in 1976
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