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Hideo Kobayashi

こばやし ひでお

Kobayashi Hideo

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1902-04-11 （Sarugaku-chō, Kanda, Tokyo City, Empire of Japan）
Died
1983-03-01 （Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan (Keio University Hospital)） age 80
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Residence History
Tokyo → Osaka → Nara → Kamakura

Career

Occupations
Literary critic, Editor, Writer, Art and antique collector and appraiser
Active Years
1929-1983
Memberships
Japan Art Academy
Influenced By
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henri Bergson, Émile Chartier (Alain), Tarō Tominaga, Jirō Aoyama, Hideo Hata, Hidetaka Yoshida, Kyōka Izumi, Rohan Kōda, Naoya Shiga
Influenced
Shōhei Ōoka, Tsunetomi Fukuda, Jun Etō, Takaaki Yoshimoto, Kōjin Karatani, Shigeru Omi, Mutsumi Yamashiro, Tsuyoshi Nakano, Yōsuke Hamazaki, Kiyoshi Yamashita

Education

Tokyo Imperial University
Faculty of Letters / Department of French Literature
Degree: 文学士
Period: 1925-1928
Year of Graduation: 1928
Country: Japan

Awards

Japan Art Academy Prize
1951
Work: Complete Works of Hideo Kobayashi
Organization: Japan Art Academy
Result: 受賞
Yomiuri Literature Prize
1953
Work: Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Organization: Yomiuri Shimbun
Result: 受賞
Noma Literary Prize
1958
Work: Modern Painting
Organization: Noma Cultural Foundation
Result: 受賞
Person of Cultural Merit
1963
Organization: Japanese Government
Result: 顕彰
Order of Culture
1967
Organization: Japanese Government
Result: 受章
Japan Literature Grand Prize
1978
Work: Motoori Norinaga
Organization: Japan Literature Promotion Society
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Various Designs

1929 Literary criticism

On the Confessional Novel

1935 Literary criticism

The Life of Dostoevsky

1937 Literary criticism

On Impermanence

1946 Literary criticism

Mozart

1946 Literary criticism

Hints for Thinking

1974 Essays

Motoori Norinaga

1965 Literary criticism

Bibliography

  • Various Designs
  • On the Confessional Novel
  • The Life of Dostoevsky
  • On Impermanence
  • Mozart
  • Hints for Thinking
  • Motoori Norinaga

Adaptations

  • Yukite Kaeranu

Translations by Author

  • A Season in Hell
  • Paludes
  • Eighty-One Chapters on Spirit and Passion

Style & Themes

Literary Style
PoeticIntuitiveLyrical
Recurring Motifs
JourneyFallen leavesImpermanence

Health

  • Bladder tumor
    1982年3月 - 1982年9月
    Underwent radical cystectomy
  • Renal failure
    1983年1月 - 1983年3月
    Died due to uremia and cardiorespiratory failure

Legacy

Regarded as a pioneer of literary criticism in Japan.

Academic Societies

  • Japan Art Academy

Archives

  • National Diet Library

Quotes

  • The Imperial Army and Navy have, in the early hours of the eighth, entered into a state of war with United States and British forces in the western Pacific.
    Source: Opening naval and military broadcast (1941)

Trivia

  • He was known for his heavy drinking and quarrels when intoxicated.