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Tsuneari Fukuda

ふくだ つねあり

Fukuda Tsuneari

別名: こうそん

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1912-08-25 (Komagome Higashikatamachi, Hongō, Tokyo (now Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan))
死没
1994-11-20 (Tokai University Oiso Hospital, Oiso, Nakagun, Kanagawa, Japan) 82歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
宗教
Buddhism
居住地歴
Komagome Higashikatamachi, Hongō, Tokyo (birthplace) → Oiso, Nakagun, Kanagawa (later residence, place of death)

経歴

職業
critic, translator, playwright, director, writer, university professor
活動期間
1937年〜1994年
所属
Chair, Modern Theatre Association, Standing Director, Japan Cultural Council, Member, Japan Art Academy, Professor, Tama Art University, Professor, Kyoto Sangyo University
所属団体
Member, Japan Art Academy, Chair, Modern Theatre Association
影響を受けた人物
William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, Hideo Kobayashi, Makoto Tokieda
影響を与えた人物
Masao Maruyama, Takaaki Yoshimoto, Tadashi Matsubara, Akira Kume, Yasuo Nakamura, Kanji Nishio, Michio Tsuchiya, Susumu Nishibe, Kojin Karatani, Midori Nakano, Yosuke Hamazaki

学歴

Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo)
Faculty of Letters / Department of English Literature
学位: 文学士
期間: 1933-1936
卒業年: 1936
国: Japan
Graduation thesis: 'Moral Problems in D. H. Lawrence'

受賞歴

Kishida Drama Award
1955
主催: Kishida Drama Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Yomiuri Literary Prize
1961
対象作品: My Kokugo Classroom
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: 受賞
Seiun Award (Film & Theatre Category)
1976
対象作品: Staa (production; direction)
部門: 映画・演劇
主催: Seiun Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Kikuchi Kan Prize
1980
主催: Kikuchi Kan Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Japan Art Academy Prize
1981
主催: Japan Art Academy
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

What Is Art?

1950年 Essay/Critical

A collection of essays on the nature of art and its relation to society.

art theorycivilizationexpression

Questions Concerning Peace Theory

1955年 Essay/Critical

A critical essay addressing postwar peace movements and progressive cultural arguments.

political criticismcultural critiquepostwar thought

Human Beings: The Dramatic

1956年 Essay/Critical

Develops a theory of human nature originating from theatrical and dramatic perspectives.

human studiestheatredramatism

My Kokugo Classroom

1960年 Language Criticism/Essay

A collection arguing for historical kana orthography and criticizing language reform in Japan.

language reformhistorical kana orthographylanguage policy

Introduction to Theatre

1981年 Theatre/Introduction

An accessible introduction to theatre covering basics of directing and audience-actor relations.

theatre educationdirecting theoryaudience studies

My Love Classroom

1959年 Essays/Critical

A collection of essays and reflections on love and relationships.

lovehuman relationships

Kitty Typhoon

1950年 Play

One of his notable plays, portraying characters' psyches and social context.

playsocial commentarycharacter psychology

The Mysterious Woman

1954年 Novel (newspaper serial)

A novel serialized in a newspaper, known as his only serialized fiction in a paper.

novelserialportrayal of people

全著作

  • The Attitude of the Writer
  • The Fate of Modernity
  • What Is Art?
  • Questions Concerning Peace Theory
  • Human Beings: The Dramatic
  • My Love Classroom
  • My Kokugo Classroom
  • Introduction to Theatre
  • The Mysterious Woman
  • Kitty Typhoon

作家による翻訳

  • Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
  • Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
  • Othello (William Shakespeare)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

作風・主題

文体
polemical and rhetorical essayistic styleuse of historical kana orthographytheatrical metaphors and dramaturgical structure
頻出モチーフ
theatre and human naturelanguage and communityconflict between tradition and modernization

健康

  • Pneumonia
    1994年11月(晩年)
    Hospitalized and died due to illness

評価・遺産

Tsuneari Fukuda was a prominent postwar Japanese critic, playwright and translator who established a conservative intellectual stance through literary criticism, translation and theatre directing. His writings on language reform and modernization of theatre provoked wide debate and influenced later thinkers and theatre practitioners.

関連学会

  • Modern Theatre Association
  • Japan Art Academy

大衆文化への影響

  • Host of a political talk show 'Fukuda Tsuneari no Sesō o Kiru' on Fuji TV (1977–1979)

引用

  • For me, neither present Tokyo nor even prewar Tokyo is my hometown. My hometown is the Tokyo before the Great Kanto Earthquake. In other words, I am a person who has lost his hometown.
    出典: 'Tabi' — essay 'Furusato to Tabi' (collection) (1978年)
  • People can only relate through production; consumption plunges people into loneliness.
    出典: "On the Consumption Boom" (1961年)

豆知識

  • His name is often read in on'yomi as 'Kōson'.
  • Posthumous Buddhist name: 'Jissōin Kōson Nishin Koji' (実相院恆存日信居士).
  • He appeared as a special defense counsel in the 1951 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' obscenity trial in Japan.
  • 'The Mysterious Woman' was a newspaper serial and is one of his few extended fictional works.