Tekkan Yosano

Yosano Tekkan (Japanese与 谢 野 鉄 干, real name: Hiroshi Yosano (与 谢 野 寛); born February 26, 1873 in Kyoto, † March 26, 1935 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Yosano came as a poet of the movement for the renewal of tanka poetry by the writer Ochiai Naobumi. A collection of his own tankas he published in 1896 under the title Tozai Nanboku (东西 南北). In 1899 he founded the poetry magazine Myojo (明星), were published in the poems in the romantic style which existed until 1908. In 1901 he married the poet Yosano Akiko, who supported him in the publication of his literary magazine and there published her own poems. From Yosano also a collection of literary criticism published under the title Bokoku no one ( 1894). The politician Kaoru Yosano is his grandson.

Swell

• Janine Beichman: Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works. Cheng & Tsui, 2002, ISBN 0-88727-364-5, p 77 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Akiko Yosano: Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: a feminist poet from Japan encounters prewar China. Columbia University Press, 2001 ( Original title:満 蒙 游记( Man- Mo Yūki ), translated by Joshua A. Fogel ), ISBN 0-231-12319-1, p 2 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Evelyn Schulz: Nagai Kafu: "Diary of repatriates ": The design aesthetic alternative worlds as a critique of the modernization of Japan. LIT Verlag, Münster, 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3487-5, p 75 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 1058 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).