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Kawaji Rūkō

かわじ りゅうこう

Kawaji Ryūkō

Pen Names: Kawaji Makoto（birth name）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1888-07-09 （Mita, Shiba Ward, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan）
Died
1959-04-17 （Narimune, Suginami Ward, Tokyo, Japan） age 70
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Residence History
Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan → Sumoto, Awaji Island, Japan

Career

Occupations
poet, critic, art critic, university lecturer
Active Years
1906-1959
Affiliations
Hosei University
Memberships
Japan Literary Artists Association
Influenced By
Paul Verlaine
Influenced
Yukio Mishima

Education

Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts
Period: 1903-1906
Year of Graduation: 1906
Country: Japan
Entered after dropping out of middle school
Tokyo Fine Arts School, Department of Japanese Painting
Department of Japanese Painting
Period: 1908-1914
Year of Graduation: 1914
Country: Japan
University of Paris
Oriental Art History
Period: 1927
Country: France
Studied Oriental Art History

Awards

Japan Art Academy Prize
1958
Work: Waves
Organization: Japan Art Academy
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Flowers by the Wayside

1910 poetry collection

Sky Beyond

1914 poetry collection

Victory

1918 poetry collection

Voice of Dawn

1921 poetry collection

The Walker

1922 poetry collection

Bibliography

  • Flowers by the Wayside
  • Sky Beyond
  • Victory
  • Voice of Dawn
  • The Walker
  • Stone

Style & Themes

Literary Style
colloquial free versenaturalism
Recurring Motifs
nature

Health

  • cerebral hemorrhage
    1959-04-17
    sudden death

Legacy

Pioneer of colloquial free verse and contributed to the modernization of poetry

Academic Societies

  • Japan Literary Artists Association

In Popular Culture

  • Mentioned as mentor of Yukio Mishima

Trivia

  • Great-grandfather was Kawaji Toshiyoshi
  • Birth name was Makoto