Chūya Nakahara

Chūya Nakahara (中原中也 in Japanese), born the April 29th 1907 in the Prefecture of Yamaguchi and deceased the October 22nd 1937 in Tōkyō, was a poet Japan board.

Much qualifies it “Rimbaud Japan board” for its affinities with the French poet of which it translated several poems as well as part of the correspondence with Paul Verlaine.

Biography

At the beginning of his life, his/her father (who was army medical officer) was named with Hiroshima like with Kanazawa, and turned over to Yamaguchi in 1914. In 1915, his/her young brother dies, and filled of sorrow it turns to the Poésie. He proposes with a local Journal to publish his three first towards in 1920, whereas he was yet only with the elementary school. In 1923, it???? in Ritsumeikan Middle School of Kyoto. It will be graduate thereafter department of foreign studies of the imperial Université of Tokyo.

Heritage

a Literary prize, the Nakahara Chūya Prize was instituted in 1996 by the town of Yamaguchi (with the support of the publishers Seidosha and Kadokawa Shoten) in the honor of Chūya Nakahara. The price is decreed annually with a remarkable collection of contemporary poetry characterized by a " news sensibilité" ( shinsen Na kankaku ). Gaining a price of a value of 1 million Yen receives, and the gaining collection is also published with a translation in language English E.

the singer of acid-folk Kazuki Tomokawa recorded two albums entitled Ore No Uchide Nariymanai ATU and Nakahara Chuya Sakuhinnshu , where it puts in music poems of Nakahara.

External bonds

/nonofficial Site with Translation S of some of its Poem S.
Site of the memorial Chūya Nakahara
Works of Chūya Nakahara on Aozora bunko
literary Figures of the town of Kamakura

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