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Teiichi Yoshida

よしだ さだいち

Yoshida Teiichi

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1941-01-01 (Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Children's literature author, Poet, Educator
Active Years
1978-
Affiliations
Shirayuri College (lecturer), Tokyo Gakugei University (lecturer), Kansai Poets Association
Memberships
Kansai Poets Association

Awards

Noma Children's Literature Recommended Works Award
1981
Work: Sea and the Oboe
Organization: Noma Children's Literature (recommendation)
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Hippopotamus Standing on Its Head — A I U E O

1978 Children's literature

A children's picture-book style work using kana play and animals as motifs.

word playanimalsearly childhood education

Sea and the Oboe

1981 Poetry collection

A poetry collection themed around sound and the sea; lyrical poems that gained recognition in children's literature and poetry.

seamusicmemory

Pianissimo in Memory

2016 Poetry collection

Late-career poetry focusing on memory and stillness.

memorysilencemusic

Crow, Crow, Kanzaburō

1979 Children's literature

A children's story notable for its rhythmic use of language.

word playanimals

Bibliography

  • Hippopotamus Standing on Its Head — A I U E O (1978)
  • Books to Love Poetry series (1979)
  • Crow, Crow, Kanzaburō (1979)
  • Children's Words · Word Play (1979)
  • Chimpanzee: The Cheerful Popular Star (1980)
  • Sea and the Oboe (1981)
  • What's Rabbit's Feast? (1999)
  • Shuppo Shuppo — What Is It? (1999)
  • In the Evening Sky of My Chest (2005)
  • Pianissimo in Memory (2016)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
gentle narrative voicechild-oriented word-playlyrical poetic expression
Recurring Motifs
childhoodnature (sea, animals)music and sound

Legacy

An author who contributed to children's literature and poetry and worked as a university lecturer. His works emphasizing word play and sound have been referenced in educational contexts.

Academic Societies

  • Kansai Poets Association

Archives

  • National Diet Library (holdings / authority)

Trivia

  • Born in Osaka Prefecture.
  • Served as a lecturer at Shirayuri College and Tokyo Gakugei University.
  • Received the Noma Children's Literature Recommended Works Award for the poetry collection 'Sea and the Oboe'.