Yone Noguchi

Noguchi Yonejirō (Japanese野 口 米 次郎, also: Yone Noguchi, * 1875 in Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture, † 1947) was an influential Japanese poet and essayist, who published both in Japanese and English. He is the father of the sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi.

Life

Noguchi was born in Nagoya and visited the Keio University, but broke off in 1893 to travel to San Francisco. He worked as a journalist and a domestic worker until he turned himself entirely to poetry. Joaquin Miller supported him and introduced him to the literary circles of the city, where he soon took a considerable role.

In 1900 he moved to New York, where he met Leonie Gilmour; their child is Isamu Noguchi. In 1904 he went back to Japan, where he was working for English as a professor. With varying success, he developed a lively publishing activity and soon became one of the outstanding mediator between Japanese and Western literature. In the 1930s, he fell out of favor with the American public increasingly, as he supported the aggressive course of the Japanese government. In 1947, he died of stomach cancer.

Works

  • Seen & Unseen, or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail (1897, 1920)
  • The Voice of the Valley (1897 )
  • The American Diary of a Japanese Girl ( 1902, 1904, 1912, 2007)
  • From the Eastern Sea ( pamphlet ) ( 1903)
  • From the Eastern Sea (1903, 1903, 1905, 1910)
  • The American Letters of a Japanese Parlor Maid ( 1905)
  • Japan of Sword and Love (1905 )
  • The Summer Cloud ( 1906)
  • Ten Kiogen in English ( 1907)
  • The Pilgrimage (1909, 1912)
  • Kamakura (1910 )
  • Lafcadio Hearn in Japan (1910, 1911)
  • The Spirit of Japanese Poetry ( 1914)
  • The Story of Yone Noguchi (1914, 1915)
  • Through the Torii (1914, 1922)
  • The Spirit of Japanese Art (1915 )
  • Japanese Hokkus (1920 )
  • Japan and America ( 1921)
  • Hiroshige ( 1921)
  • Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi ( 1921)
  • Korin (1922 )
  • Utamaro (1924 )
  • Hokusai ( 1925)
  • Harunobu (1927 )
  • Sharaku (1932 )
  • The Ukiyoye Primitives (1933 )
  • Hiroshige ( 1934)
  • Hiroshige and Japanese Landscapes (1934 )
  • The Ganges Calls Me (1938 )
  • Harunobu (1940 )
  • Hiroshige ( 1940)
  • Emperor Shomu and the Shosoin ( 1941).
  • Collected English Letters ed, Ikuko Atsumi (1975).
  • Selected English Writings of Yone Noguchi: An East - West Literary Assimilation, ed Yoshinobu Hakutani, v. 2 (1990-1992).
  • Collected English Works of Yone Noguchi: Poems, Novels and Literary Essays, ed Shunsuke Kamei, v. 6 (2007)
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Essay
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Japanese
  • Born 1875
  • Died in 1947
  • Man
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