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Handa Ryohei

ハンダ リョウヘイ

Handa Ryohei

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1887-09-10 (Fukatsu, Kita-Inukai Village, Kamitsuga District, Tochigi Prefecture (now Fukatsu, Kanuma City, Japan))
Died
1945-05-19 age 58
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Tanka poet, English teacher, Critic, Translator
Active Years
1907-1945
Influenced By
Matsuo Bashō, Kobayashi Issa, Kagawa Kageki

Education

Kita-Inukai Tōjō Elementary School (now Tsuda Elementary School, Kanuma City)
Country: Japan
Sugawa Elementary and Higher Primary School (now Utsunomiya City Sugawa Chuo Elementary School)
Country: Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Utsunomiya High School (formerly Utsunomiya Middle School)
Country: Japan
Former Second Higher School
Country: Japan
Tokyo Imperial University
English Literature
Country: Japan

Awards

Japan Art Academy Prize
1949
Work: Kōki
Organization: Japan Art Academy
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Kōki

1949 Tanka anthology

Posthumously published tanka anthology by Handa Ryohei.

Health

  • Pleurisy
    1943–1945
    Repeated hospitalizations and health decline
  • Cold
    1945年3月
    Fatal leading to death

Legacy

Regarded as a great tanka poet that Kanuma City is proud of.

Trivia

  • First person from Tochigi Prefecture to receive the Japan Art Academy Prize.
  • All three of his sons predeceased him, dying from illness or war.