Contemporary Tanka Criticism Award
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (1954) award
Hishikawa Yoshio
ひしかわ よしお
Hishikawa Yoshio
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1929-06-03 （Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan）
- Died
- 2007-12-15 age 78
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Otaru, Hokkaido → Sapporo, Hokkaido
Career
- Occupations
- tanka poet, literary critic, Japanese literature scholar, university professor
- Active Years
- 1954-2007
- Affiliations
- Hokkai Gakuen University, Hokkaido Institute of Technology, Asahikawa National College of Technology
- Influenced By
- Oda Kankei, Kazemaki Keijiro, Fujiwara no Teika
- Influenced
- Tsukamoto Kunio, Okai Takashi, Terayama Shuji, Kasugai Ken, Kuzuhara Taeko, Tanaka Aya
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hokkaido University | Faculty of Letters | Department of Japanese Literature | — | 1949-1953 | Japan |
| Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University | — | Graduate Department of Japanese Literature | — | 1953-1958 | Japan |
Hokkaido University
Faculty of Letters
/ Department of Japanese Literature
Period:
1949-1953
Year of Graduation:
1953
Country:
Japan
Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
Graduate Department of Japanese Literature
Period:
1953-1958
Year of Graduation:
1958
Country:
Japan
Left doctoral program after completing course requirements (non-degree)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Modern Tanka Criticism Prize (1st) | The Lyrical Defeat | — | Modern Tanka Criticism Prize Committee | winner |
| 1979 | Sapporo Citizens' Cultural Encouragement Award (7th) | — | — | Sapporo City | winner |
Modern Tanka Criticism Prize (1st)
1954
Work:
The Lyrical Defeat
Organization:
Modern Tanka Criticism Prize Committee
Result:
winner
Sapporo Citizens' Cultural Encouragement Award (7th)
1979
Organization:
Sapporo City
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Lyrical Defeat
1958 criticism (tanka criticism)An early collection of criticism addressing the avant-garde tanka movement, analyzing aesthetics and postwar trends in tanka.
tankaliterary criticismavant-garde literature
Modern Tanka: Beauty and Thought
1972 criticismA major critical work discussing the theory and aesthetics of modern tanka, outlining the positioning and issues of postwar tanka.
tanka theoryaesthetics
Collected Tanka of Yoshio Hishikawa
2013 tanka collectionA posthumous collection of tanka compiling poems he had continued composing intermittently.
personal historymemorynature
Bibliography
- The Lyrical Defeat (Sakuhinsha, 1958)
- Modern Tanka: Beauty and Thought (Oufu, 1972)
- Light Sources of Postwar Tanka (Oufu, 1974)
- Collected Criticism of Yoshio Hishikawa (Chiseisha, 1990)
- Collected Tanka of Yoshio Hishikawa (Tanka Kenkyusha, 2013)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- analytical and critical styleapproach grounded in reevaluation of classical waka
- Recurring Motifs
- reassessment of classicsadvocacy for the avant-gardeaesthetics of tanka
Legacy
A critic and tanka poet who provided theoretical support for the postwar avant-garde tanka movement. He taught at Hokkai Gakuen University and contributed to the development of tanka culture in Hokkaido. His collected works published posthumously affirm his importance in tanka criticism.
Academic Societies
- Hokkai Gakuen University Humanities Society
Trivia
- Although he was said to have devoted himself to criticism from the mid-1950s onward, he continued to write tanka intermittently and a collection was published posthumously.
- Professor emeritus of Hokkai Gakuen University.