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Ken Kasugai

かすがい けん

Kasugai Ken

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1938-12-20 （Niwa District, Aichi Prefecture (now Kōnan City)）
死没
2004-05-22 （Nagoya, Aichi, Japan） 65歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Niwa District, Aichi Prefecture (now Kōnan City) → Shōwa Ward, Nagoya → Chikusa Ward (Hikari-ga-oka), Nagoya

経歴

職業
tanka poet, university professor, writer, theatre director, TV personality
活動期間
1958年〜2004年
所属
Aichi Women's Junior College (now Nagoya Gakugei University Junior College), Chubu Tanka Association
影響を受けた人物
Mizuho Ōta, Hideo Nakai, Kunikazu Tsukamoto
影響を与えた人物
Kyoko Inaba, Shion Mizuhara, Torahiko Otsuka, Tomoko Furuya, Akio Kita, Karan Kurose, Naoko Tsuzuki, Tokika Horita

学歴

Nanzan University
Faculty of Letters / English Department
国: Japan

受賞歴

Nagoya City Arts Encouragement Award
1982
主催: Nagoya City
結果: 受賞
Aichi Prefecture Cultural Award
1993
主催: Aichi Prefecture
結果: 受賞
Tanka Kenkyu Prize (34th)
1998
対象作品: "Haku-u" (30 poems) and "Koharasho" (21 poems)
主催: Tanka Kenkyu (Tanka Research) Society
結果: 受賞
Japan Kajin Club Prize (27th)
2000
対象作品: 'Tomono Sho' and 'Haku-u'
主催: Japan Tanka Poets Club
結果: 受賞
Choko Prize (34th)
2000
対象作品: 'Tomono Sho' and 'Haku-u'
主催: Choko Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Chunichi Culture Award (57th)
2004
主催: Chunichi Shimbun
結果: 短歌創作と歌誌発行による貢献（受賞）

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Miseinen

1960年 tanka

First collection of poems from his youth, noted for its fantastic and aesthetic (decadent) style; prefaced by Yukio Mishima.

fantasyaestheticismyouth

Ike Kaeru Koto Naku

1970年 poetry collection

Published in 1970; poems from a period when he increasingly engaged in theatre and media work.

diversification of expressiontheatricality

Haku-u (White Rain)

1999年 tanka

One of his late collections, containing poems confronting illness and the notions of body and mind.

illnessdeathbody and mind

Isen

2002年 tanka

Published in 2002; reflects perspectives from his later years.

later yearsrecollection

Asa no Mizu (Morning Water)

2004年 tanka

Posthumously published collection with poetic engagement with illness and confrontation.

illnessdeathloss and recovery

全著作

  • Miseinen (1960)
  • Ike Kaeru Koto Naku (1970)
  • Kasugai Ken Collected Poems (1977)
  • Toukai Shika-shuu (1982)
  • Aoi Ashi (1984)
  • Tomono Sho (1999)
  • Haku-u (1999)
  • Mizu no Kura (2000)
  • Isen (2002)
  • Asa no Mizu (2004)
  • Background of Miseinen (2005, essays)
  • Complete Collected Poems of Kasugai Ken (2010)

作風・主題

文体
fantastic and aesthetic (decadent) style in early worksbalanced use of classical written Japanese style in later works
頻出モチーフ
deathillnessbody and mindaesthetics

健康

  • pharyngeal cancer (oropharyngeal cancer)
    1999-2004
    Underwent chemotherapy and radiation; illness strongly influenced his late work, bringing themes of disease and mortality to the fore.

評価・遺産

A prominent figure in modern tanka, he left a broad poetic oeuvre from early fantastical works to late poems confronting illness. Through editing and publishing a tanka magazine he contributed to the regional tanka community and mentored many disciples.

関連学会

  • Chubu Tanka Association
  • Chunichi Tanka Association

引用

  • "We have one young Teika among us."
    出典: Yukio Mishima (preface to 'Miseinen') (1960年)

豆知識

  • Both his parents were disciples of Mizuho Ōta, placing him in the Chōon lineage.
  • His grand-nephew is writer and game designer Ukyo Kotachi (Kotachi Ukyo is the Japanese reading; known as K. Kotachi in some sources).
  • Several collections and essays were published posthumously.