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Utsubo Kubota | |
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Native name | 窪田 空穂 |
Born | Wada Village, Higashichikuma District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan | June 8, 1877
Died | April 12, 1967 | (aged 89)
Occupation | poet |
Genre | tanka poetry |
Literary movement | Naturalism |
Utsubo Kubota (窪田 空穂 Kubota Utsubo; 1877–1967) was a Japanese tanka poet.
Biography
Utsubo Kubota was born on 8 June 1877.[1] He was born in Wada Village, Higashichikuma District (modern-day Matsumoto City), Nagano Prefecture.[2] His real name was Tsūji Kubota (窪田 通治 Kubota Tsūji).[2]
He graduated the School of Letters at the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō (present-day Waseda University).[2] After working as a reporter for various newspapers and magazines,[2] he returned to Waseda to become a lecturer on literature.[2]
He died in 12 April 1967.[1]
Writings
Kubota was a leading poet of the Japanese Naturalist school.[3] He wrote tanka poems throughout his career,[3] as well as poems of other forms such as the chōka.[3]
He also wrote works of scholarship on classical Japanese literature.[3]
Reception
Literary historian and critic Donald Keene wrote of Kubota that he "attained his greatest distinction as a poet relatively late in life", contrasting him in this sense to the poets associated with the magazine Myōjō.[3] He went on to note that "[Kubota's] poetry often has a perfection of diction that defies translation, though his themes and imagery are less compelling compelling" than other Naturalist poets.[3]
References
- ^ a b Keene 1999, p. 32; Mukawa 1994.
- ^ a b c d e Mukawa 1994.
- ^ a b c d e f Keene 1999, p. 32.
Works cited
- Keene, Donald (1999) [1984]. A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 4: Dawn to the West – Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Poetry, Drama, Criticism) (paperback ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11435-6.
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