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Toshikazu Yasumizu

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Yasumizu Toshikazu

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1931-09-15 （Suma-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan）
死没
2022-08-16 （Kobe, Hyogo, Japan） 90歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese

経歴

職業
poet, lyricist, scriptwriter, university lecturer
活動期間
1950年〜2022年
所属
Kobe Shoin Women's University (former professor), Gendai Shijin-kai (Contemporary Poets' Association)
所属団体
Gendai Shijin-kai (Contemporary Poets' Association), Hyogo Contemporary Poetry Association (co-founder and first chair)

学歴

Kobe University
Faculty of Letters / Department of English and American Literature
学位: 学士
期間: 1950-1954
卒業年: 1954
国: Japan

受賞歴

Ministry of Education Arts Festival Encouragement Award
1963
対象作品: Kyoto (lyrics for choral suite)
主催: Ministry of Education (Arts Festival)
結果: 受賞
Arts Festival Excellence Award
1973
対象作品: Radio drama 'Tabi ni Yande'
主催: Arts Festival (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
結果: 受賞
Iiue Culture Prize
1984
主催: Iiue Culture Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Chikyu (Earth) Prize (14th)
1989
対象作品: Kioku Mekuri
主催: Chikyu Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Kobe City Cultural Award
1990
主催: City of Kobe
結果: 受賞
Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award
1996
主催: Hyogo Prefecture
結果: 受賞
Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Contemporary Poetry Prize (6th)
1997
対象作品: Akiyama-sho
主催: Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Bansui Prize (40th)
1999
対象作品: What It Means to Be Alive
主催: Bansui Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Shika Bungakukan Award (16th)
2001
対象作品: Tsubakisaki ya Minantote
主催: Poetry and Song Museum
結果: 受賞
Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize (43rd)
2005
対象作品: Kanibama Made
主催: Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize Committee
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Kioku Mekuri

1988年 poetry collection

A collection exploring personal and collective memory; includes poems connected to his ongoing engagement with the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.

memoryearthquaketime

Akiyama-sho

1996年 poetry collection

Poems that address nature and the memory of place; awarded the Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Contemporary Poetry Prize.

placenaturememory

What It Means to Be Alive

1999年 poetry collection

A volume of poems reflecting on existence and everyday life; recipient of the Bansui Prize.

existencedaily lifehumanity

Kanibama Made

2004年 poetry collection

A poetry collection including works related to Matsumi Sugae; awarded the Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize.

historybiographical pursuitregionalism

全著作

  • Songs for Existence (1955)
  • About Love (1956)
  • Birds (1958)
  • Kioku Mekuri: Poetry Collection by Toshikazu Yasumizu (1988)
  • Akiyama-sho (1996)
  • What It Means to Be Alive (1999)
  • Tsubakisaki ya Minantote (2000)
  • Kanibama Made (2004)
  • Collected Poems of Toshikazu Yasumizu (1999)

翻案

  • Choral suite 'Kyoto' (lyrics by Toshikazu Yasumizu; music by Takehiko Tada, 1965)
  • Provided texts for 'About Birds' choral suite by Shinichiro Ikebe (2001)

作風・主題

文体
modern poetrylyrical and observational styleemphasis on locality and memory
頻出モチーフ
memorythe Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquakeland and naturejourney/travel

評価・遺産

A Kobe-based poet who chronicled regional memory and the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in his work. He contributed to the local poetic community as an educator and selector, and was recognized for numerous poetry collections and critical writings.

記念館・博物館

  • Kobe Literary Museum (hosted exhibition on Toshikazu Yasumizu) Oji Park, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

関連学会

  • Hyogo Contemporary Poetry Association
  • Gendai Shijin-kai (Contemporary Poets' Association)

資料所蔵先

  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (holds related materials)
  • Kobe Literary Museum (exhibition materials, etc.)

豆知識

  • Founded the poetry magazine 'Poetro' in 1950.
  • Served as selector for the Kobe Shimbun readers' literary poetry column from 1985 to 2017.
  • Called for the establishment of the Hyogo Contemporary Poetry Association in 1997 and served as its first chair.