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Kenichi Yoshida

よしだ けんいち

Yoshida Kenichi

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1912-04-01 （Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo (Imperial Household Agency housing)）
死没
1977-08-03 （34 Harai-katacho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan (residence)） 65歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese, English
居住地歴
Imperial Household Agency housing, Sendagaya, Tokyo, Japan → Qingdao, China → Paris, France → London, United Kingdom → Tianjin, China → Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (postwar) → Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan → Harai-katacho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan (residence)

経歴

職業
English literature scholar, literary critic, translator, novelist, essayist
活動期間
1935年〜1977年
所属
Chuo University, Faculty of Letters (Professor), Kokugakuin University (part-time lecturer)
影響を受けた人物
William Shakespeare, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Laforgue, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, F. L. Lucas
影響を与えた人物
Yasuyuki Konishi (Pizzicato Five)

学歴

Gakushuin Primary School
期間: 1918年 入学（在籍期間不明）
国: Japan
Gyosei Junior & Senior High School
期間: 1926 - 1930
卒業年: 1930
国: Japan
Transferred from a school in Tianjin; graduated March 1930.
King's College, University of Cambridge
English literature
学位: 中退 (withdrew)
期間: 1930 - 1931（1931年3月中退）
卒業年: 1931
国: United Kingdom
Studied under F. L. Lucas and others; withdrew in March 1931 and returned to Japan.
Athénée Français (Atenee Francaise, Tokyo)
French, Greek, Latin
期間: 〜1935（1935年6月卒業）
卒業年: 1935
国: Japan
Studied French, Greek and Latin.

受賞歴

Yomiuri Literary Prize
1957
対象作品: Shakespeare
部門: 文芸評論部門
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: 受賞
Shinchosha Literary Prize
1957
対象作品: On Japan
主催: Shinchosha
結果: 受賞
Noma Literary Prize
1970
対象作品: The End of the European Century
主催: Noma Cultural Foundation
結果: 受賞
Yomiuri Literary Prize
1971
対象作品: Amid the Rubble
部門: 小説部門
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

English Literature

1949年 Literary criticism / History of literature

Debut work: an overview and criticism of English literature from Chaucer to the 20th century. Revised and reissued in later editions.

history of English literatureShakespearemodernity

The End of the European Century

1970年 Essays / Criticism

A collection of essays originally serialized in 'Eureka' about European culture, fin-de-siècle sensibilities, and literature and history.

European culturefin-de-sièclecultural history

Amid the Rubble

1970年 Novel

A novel set against the postwar cityscape, portraying human subtleties; recipient of the Yomiuri Literary Prize (novel category).

postwarurban lifehuman relationships

On Japan

1957年 Essays / Criticism

A collection of essays on Japan addressing customs, culture, and national sensibilities.

Japanese culturecustomscriticism

Time

1976年 Essays / Criticism

A long-form essay serialized in 1975–76, later published as a book; contemplative writing about books and history.

conceptions of timebooksmemory

My Food Memoirs

1972年 Essays / Food writing

A collection of food essays written in a distinctive repetitive style, recounting food and travel memories.

food culturetravelmemoir

全著作

  • English Literature
  • Shakespeare
  • The Prime Minister's Son in Poverty
  • East-West Literary Theory
  • Essays: A Head Drowned in Drink
  • The Beggar Prince
  • On Modern Literature
  • Guide to a Literary Life
  • How to Improve Your English
  • Bittersweet Taste
  • On Japan
  • Feast
  • Savors Here and There
  • Byways of English Literature
  • Contemporary Japanese Literature
  • On Modern Poetry
  • Introduction to Literature
  • Sunset Selections: About My Father, Shigeru Yoshida, and Others
  • Literature of My Remaining Years
  • Amid the Rubble
  • The End of the European Century
  • Portraits of Authors
  • Complete Short Stories of Kenichi Yoshida
  • Imaginary Things
  • My Food Memoirs
  • Record of Friendships
  • On Britain
  • Old Tokyo
  • Buried Wood
  • Time
  • Definitive Sunset Selections
  • As I Remember

作家による翻訳

  • Marginalia (Edgar Allan Poe) — translation
  • Hamlet Variations (Jules Laforgue) — translation
  • 1984 (George Orwell) — co-translation
  • The Renaissance (Walter Pater) — translation

作品の翻訳

  • Japan is a Circle (Kodansha International, 1975) / Japanese edition translated by Ikuno Hiroshi (1978)

作風・主題

文体
long, flowing sentences with sparse punctuationessayistic and fragmentary criticismrefined linguistic sense and sensual description
頻出モチーフ
alcohol (especially sherry)travel and trainsfood and gastronomycomparisons between European literature and Japanese culturerelationship with his father, Shigeru Yoshida

健康

  • Acute illness (1977, became unwell during a trip to Europe)
    1977年7月〜8月（入退院の記録あり、8月3日死去）
    Fell ill during a European trip in 1977 and was hospitalized upon return; discharged briefly but died at home on August 3, 1977.

評価・遺産

Kenichi Yoshida left a wide-ranging body of work as an English literature scholar, critic, translator and essayist. His distinctive long-flowing prose, interest in food and travel, and comparative perspective on European and Japanese culture influenced later writers and critics. His papers and manuscripts were donated to the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature.

記念館・博物館

  • Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature (Yoshida Kenichi Collection) Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 2016年開館

関連学会

  • Chuo University, Faculty of Letters (teaching post)

資料所蔵先

  • Yoshida Kenichi Collection (Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature)

大衆文化への影響

  • Yasuyuki Konishi (Pizzicato Five) often quoted a passage from Yoshida's essay 'Nagasaki' and used it as a tribute album title.
  • The book 'Time' appears as a prop in the film 'Jiyugaoka de'.

引用

  • The only means of opposing war is for each person to make their own life beautiful and cling to it.
    出典: Essay 'Nagasaki' (1957年)

豆知識

  • He loved dogs throughout his life and named several mongrel female dogs (e.g., 'Hikoshichi').
  • Credited with naming the Kanazawa sake brand 'Kuroobi' (Black Belt).
  • Served as a defense witness in the 1951 Chatterley obscenity trial in Japan.
  • His father was Shigeru Yoshida, a former Prime Minister of Japan; their relationship was complicated.
  • His family donated about 5,700 items of his papers to the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature in 2016.