日本の文学賞

← ホームに戻る

Yamaguchi Sōdō

やまぐち そうどう

Yamaguchi Sōdō

ペンネーム: Yamaguchi SōdōHaiku pen name (used as his poet name)

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1898-07-27 (Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
死没
1985-03-03 86歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese

経歴

職業
haiku poet
活動期間
1931年〜1985年
所属団体
Member of 'Asebi' (Asibi) magazine circle, Founder and editor of 'Nanpu' haiku journal
影響を受けた人物
Mizuhara Shūōshi
影響を与えた人物
Washiya Nanako

学歴

Waseda University
Faculty of Letters / German literature
期間: 在籍期間不明(中退)
国: Japan
Left the German literature department due to illness

受賞歴

Asebi (Asibi) Prize
1934
主催: Magazine 'Asebi (Asibi)'
結果: winner
Shakko Prize
1977
対象作品: Shiki Shōshō (Shiki Shōshō)
主催: Shakko Prize Committee
結果: winner
Osaka Civic Cultural Merit Award
1979
主催: Osaka City
結果: recipient

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Kikyorai: Haiku Collection

1940年 haiku collection

Early haiku collection including prewar poems.

natureseasons

Gyoro-sho: Yamaguchi Sōdō's Third Haiku Collection

1968年 haiku collection

An important collection that includes a foreword framing haiku as a 'proof of living.'

lifeexistencenature

Shiki Shōshō: Haiku Collection

1977年 haiku collection

One of his representative late works; recipient of the 11th Shakko Prize.

seasonstimehuman life

Hakubō: Yamaguchi Sōdō's Fifth Haiku Collection

1985年 haiku collection

Published in his late years; includes poems published around his death.

agerecollectionnature

全著作

  • Kikyorai: Haiku Collection (Kōransha, 1940)
  • Gyoro-sho: Third Haiku Collection (Nanpu Haiku Association, 1968)
  • Shiki Shōshō: Haiku Collection (Bokuyōsha, 1977)
  • Hakubō: Fifth Haiku Collection (Nagata Shobō, 1985)
  • Kasugao-ka Zakki (Bokuyōsha, 1986) (posthumous)
  • Complete Haiku Collection of Yamaguchi Sōdō (Kagami-sha, 2001)

作風・主題

文体
Concise style emphasizing seasonal feelingAdvocated haiku as a 'proof of living'
頻出モチーフ
seasons (the four seasons)nature imagerylife and death

健康

  • illness (occurred during student years)
    学生時代(在学中に中退)
    Left Waseda University's German literature department due to illness
  • heart failure
    1985-03-03
    Died of heart failure

評価・遺産

One of the representative haiku poets from Osaka. He proposed the idea of haiku as a "proof of living" and significantly influenced the regional haiku community. Through his collections and the journal 'Nanpu' he contributed to nurturing later generations.

引用

  • Haiku became, for me, a 'proof of living.'
    出典: Foreword to Gyoro-sho (1968) (1968年)

豆知識

  • Real name was Taichirō.
  • In 1931 he joined 'Asebi' (Asebi magazine) and established the Osaka Asebi group the same year.
  • Received the Asebi Prize in 1934 and the 11th Shakko Prize in 1977.
  • Founded and edited the haiku journal 'Nanpu'; in 1984 he handed editorship to Washiya Nanako and became honorary editor.
  • Died of heart failure on March 3, 1985.