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Akio Murakami

むらかみ あきお

Murakami Akio

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1927-01-05 (Daito Town, Higashi-Iwai District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan (now Daito, Ichinoseki))
死没
1968-10-11 41歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese

経歴

職業
poet, postal clerk, labor activist
活動期間
1947年〜1968年
影響を受けた人物
Akihachiro Takahashi, Shiro Murano

学歴

Iwate Middle School (now Iwate High School)
期間: 入学 1939年 — 卒業年不明
国: Japan
Attended Iwate Middle School (now Iwate High School). Mobilized as a student worker during the war.

受賞歴

Doi Bansui Prize (8th)
1967
対象作品: Animal Requiem
主催: Doi Bansui Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
H Prize (18th)
1968
対象作品: Animal Requiem
主催: H Prize Committee
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Animal Requiem

1967年 Poetry collection

First poetry collection. A set of short poems that address illness and death, portraying human loneliness and pain through observations of animals and nature.

illnessdeathanimalsnatureloneliness

全著作

  • Animal Requiem (Shichosha, 1967)

作風・主題

文体
concise, lyrical styleintrospective treatment of illness and death
頻出モチーフ
animalssanatorium and wardsnatural imagerylabor

健康

  • tuberculosis
    1950年発病 - 1968年(死去)
    A long battle with tuberculosis formed the background of his creative activity; he began writing poetry while hospitalized in a sanatorium.

評価・遺産

Recognized as a poet from Iwate Prefecture; his first collection 'Animal Requiem' won the Doi Bansui Prize and the H Prize. A monument to his poetry stands at the Morioka City Library and collected works have been published.

記念館・博物館

  • Morioka City Library (Murakami Akio poem monument) Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

関連学会

  • Iwate Poets Club

資料所蔵先

  • Kolsack Publishing: Collected Works of Akio Murakami

豆知識

  • His parents were reportedly uncle and niece.
  • Mobilized as a student worker during WWII and worked in a factory; later served as a provincial official in Manchukuo.
  • Experienced Siberian internment and, after returning to Japan, worked at a post office.
  • Developed tuberculosis in 1950 and struggled with the illness thereafter.
  • There is a monument to his poetry at the Morioka City Library.