Kunikida Doppo (in Kanji: 國木田獨歩), born on July 15th, 1871 with Chōshi and dead on June 23rd, 1908 with Tōkyō, was a writer Japan board who published novels as well as collections of romantic poetry during the era Meiji. It is one of the initiators of the naturalism Japanese.

Biography

Youth

Its true name is Kunikida Tetsuo. There are doubts as for the identity of his father. Raised by his mother and the husband of this one, Samurai, they moved with Tōkyō in 1874, then towards the Préfecture of Yamaguchi; the Kunikida young person thus grows with Iwakuni. He had a great love for nature thanks to the rural region of Choshu in which he grows. This deeply influenced the naturalism of its works.

It gave up its studies in 1888 to help to provide for the needs for its family, but left one year later for Tōkyō to take them again.

He studied with the faculty of English of the Tokyo Semmon Gakko (today the Université Waseda). Being interested in the Western Democracy , its political attitude rebels towards the administration of the school resulted in its expulsion in 1891.

It converts with the Christianisme at the 21 years age, baptized by Uemura Masahisa. Its religion and the poetry of William Wordsworth will influence her literary style.

Career

It founded a literary magazine, Seinen bungaku ( Literature for youth ) in 1892, and began its diary Azamukazaru No ki ( An honest Testimony ) in 1893, the year when it started to teach English, mathematics and the history with Saiki, another rural region of the country.

It joined the newspaper Kokumin Shimbun in 1894 as a war correspondent. Its articles on the face of the Sino-Japanese war, very respected, will be published in a posthumous collection called Aitei Tsushin ( Official statements with a loved brother ).

The following year, it settled again in Tōkyō. It published there the magazine Kokumin No Tomo ( The Friend of the nation ), and met there that which will become later his wife, Sasaki Nobuko (Arishima Takeo is supposed to have based its famous novel Aru Onna on it). They married in November 1895 in spite of the opposition of the family of Sasaki (his/her mother rather encouraged it with Suicide R than to marry with Kunikida). Doppo having then financial problems, Sasaki, enclosure, divorced after only five months. This marriage missed traumatisa the poet; its depression and its anguish can be read in Azamukazaru No ki , published of 1908 to 1909.

Shortly after its divorce, its style turned to romantic poetry; he was the joint author of Jojoshi ( Lyric poetry ), a collection of poetry published in 1897, with Tayama Katai and Yanagita Kunio. It is in this time also that it published several poems which will be collected later in Doppo gin , as well as the news Gen Oji ( Gen old man ). It introduces a new style of lyric romantic literature.

It remaria in 1898 with Enomoto Haruko and published its first collection of news, Mushashino ( The Plain of Mushashi ) in 1901.

However, its style started to change. Though Haru No Tori ( Birds of spring ), will reach more the high summits of the romanticism of the time, its posterior works, of which Kyushi ( The Death of poor ) and Take No Kido ( The Door of Bamboo ), will indicate a preference for the naturalism.

After the War Russo-Japanese woman of 1905, Kunikida founded a publisher which will go bankrupt later two years.

It will fall sick from Tuberculose in 1907 and will die about it the following year at the 38 years age. Its tomb is in the Cimetière Aoyama of Tōkyō.

See too

References

• Shuichi Kato, has off History Japanese Literature , RoutledgeCurzon, IE edition, 1997. ISBN 1873410484

Internal bonds

• List of writers of Japanese language alphabetically
• Romanticism

External bond

• Works of Kunikida Doppo to be downloaded free on the site of Aozora Bunko

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