"Love Poems" - Love Embroidery

...On the other hand, Hagiwara Sakutaro, a disciple of Hakushu, expressed the inner world of the solitary ego of modern man in works such as Howling at the Moon (1917) and Blue Cat (1923), verbalizing a world he described as the "pathetic scream of 'hurting life' itself." His close friend Muroo Saisei published Lyric Short Pieces and Love Poems (both in 1918), which also had a great influence. In the mid-Taisho period, the so-called popular poets who reflected Taisho democracy, including Shiratori Shogo, Hyakuta Soji, Fukuda Masao, and Tomita Saika, wrote poems about the lives of farmers and workers. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Poems of Love" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…一方，白秋門の萩原朔太郎は《月に吠える》(1917)や《青猫》(1923)によって近代人の孤独な自我の内景を表現し，〈“傷める生命”そのもののやるせない絶叫〉とみずからいう世界を言語化した。彼の親友室生犀星は《抒情小曲集》《愛の詩集》(ともに1918)を出して，同じく大きな影響を与えた。　大正中期には大正デモクラシーを反映したいわゆる民衆詩派の白鳥省吾，百田宗治，福田正夫，富田砕花らが，農民や労働者の生活を詩にとりあげた。…

※「《愛の詩集》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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