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Takahashi Shinkichi

たかはし しんきち

Takahashi Shinkichi

ペンネーム: Dadaist Shinkichi(Pen name used during his Dadaist period)

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1901-01-28 (Ikata, Ehime, Japan)
死没
1987-06-05 86歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
宗教
Buddhism (Zen)

経歴

職業
poet, novelist, essayist
活動期間
1920年〜1987年
影響を受けた人物
Dadaism, Zen (Buddhist thought)
影響を与えた人物
Subsequent Zen-influenced and avant-garde poets

学歴

Yawatahama Commercial School (now Ehime Prefectural Yawatahama High School)
期間: 中退
国: Japan
Dropped out; subsequently led an itinerant life.

受賞歴

Arts Selection (Minister of Education Award)
1973
対象作品: Collected Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi (Definitive Edition)
主催: Arts Selection (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
結果: 受賞
Japan Poets Club Prize
1982
対象作品: Void
主催: Japan Poets Club
結果: 受賞
Ehime Shimbun Cultural Award
1984
主催: Ehime Shimbun
結果: 受賞
Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize
1985
対象作品: The Complete Works of Shinkichi Takahashi
主催: Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize
結果: 受賞
Ehime Prefecture Education and Culture Award
1986
主催: Ehime Prefecture
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Poems of Dadaist Shinkichi

1923年 poetry

Early collection reflecting Dadaist spirit and experimental techniques, notable for linguistic play and visual expressions.

anti-artnihilismZen transcendence
翻訳
  • Selected poems translated into English (1971)

Collected Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi (Definitive Edition)

1972年 poetry

Definitive collected edition of his poetry, including representative works on Zen and transcendence.

Zentranscendencetemporality

Void

1981年 poetry

A major late-career collection characterized by deep Zen insight and introspection.

emptinessintrospectionviews on life and death

全著作

  • Poems of Dadaist Shinkichi (1923)
  • Gion Festival: Lyric Pieces (1926)
  • New Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi (1928)
  • Collection of Nonsense (1934)
  • Madman (novel) (1936)
  • Selected Poems of Shinkichi (1936)
  • Madness: Short Stories (1936)
  • Folly Collection (1941)
  • Shinkichi Takahashi: Poetry Collection (1952)
  • Nihility (1957)
  • Zen Essays (1958)
  • Definitive Complete Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi (1972)
  • Collected Works of Shinkichi Takahashi (1982)

作品の翻訳

  • English translations of Zen-related poems (1971)

作風・主題

文体
Dadaist experimentalismZen-based meditative expressionvisual-poetry techniques
頻出モチーフ
emptiness (kū)transcendencevast time spans (e.g., 500 million years)repetition of everyday objects (plates, etc.)

健康

  • prostate cancer
    1983-1987
    Diagnosed in 1983; underwent repeated hospitalizations and ultimately died from the illness.

評価・遺産

He forged a unique poetic realm combining Dadaist avant-garde spirit and Zen transcendence, gaining recognition domestically and abroad as a Zen poet. An important figure in interwar avant-garde poetry who later contributed to dissemination of Zen literature.

資料所蔵先

  • National Diet Library (holds related materials)

引用

  • DADA asserts and denies everything.
    出典: Poems of Dadaist Shinkichi (1923年)
  • Plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate plate / weariness
    出典: Poem 'Plate' (1923年)

豆知識

  • He lost his mother during his childhood.
  • In 1922 he was arrested after assaulting a taxi driver with a cane (reported at the time).
  • Debuted as a novelist before turning to poetry.
  • In 1971, his Zen-related poems were translated into English and received attention in the West.