Wenceslau de Moraes
Wenceslau de Moraes ( or Venceslau de Morais, José de Sousa Moraes actually Wenceslaus, * May 30, 1854 in Lisbon, Portugal, † July 1, 1929 in Tokushima, Japan) was a Portuguese naval officer, diplomat and writer, whose works an accurate picture reflect the life easier Japanese.
Life
De Moraes was born in 1854 in Lisbon. After his officer training at a Naval Academy, he served on several ships of the Portuguese Navy. In 1891 he moved to Macao, where he was captain of the port and in 1893 teacher at the local São José High School. There he married the Chinese Atchan (also Wong Yok Chan or Chan Vong Io ), with whom he had two sons. He became friends with the poet Camilo Pessanha and began with " TRACOS do Extremo Oriente - Sião, China e Japão " his literary career. Over several trips to Japan, he met the country know and love. In 1899 he was appointed Portuguese consul in Kobe and Osaka, leaving his wife, from whom he had been separated years earlier, and children back. In Kobe, he married in 1899 the Geisha Ó - Yone Fukemoto. On August 20, 1912 his Japanese wife died of a heart attack, after which he withdrew from the Consul office on 10 June 1913. He moved to Tokushima, where the ashes of his wife was kept. In 1929, he died under unclear circumstances not exactly in Tokushima.
The Portuguese director Paulo Branco turned the 1982 feature film " Island of Love ", the extremely faithfully reproduces the life of Wenceslau de Moraes and was also broadcast on German television.
Works
- " TRACOS do Extremo Oriente - Sião, China e Japão " (1895 )
- " Dai Nippon " - The Great Japan (1897 ) - Main
- " Cartas do Japão " (1904 )
- " O Culto do Chá " (1905 )
- "Os serous no Japão " ( 1905 and 1925)
- "A vida japonesa " (1907 )
- "O" Bon Odori "em Tokushima. Caderno de Impressões intimas " (1911 and 1916)
- " O tiro do meio - dia" (1919)
- " O- Yone e Co- Haru " (1923 )
- " Paisagens as China e do Japão " (1924 )
- " Revival since história do Japão " (1924 )
- " Revival since Alma Japonesa " (1926 )