Ikuta Shungetsu

Japanese: 生田春月 - いくた・しゅんげつ

Year of death: May 19, 1930
Year of birth: March 12, 1892 (Meiji 25)
A poet and translator from the Taisho period. Born in Michiwara-cho, Yonago-cho, Aimi-gun, Tottori Prefecture. The eldest son of Satoru and Iwa. His real name was Seihei. He went on to Meido Elementary School and then Kakuban Higher Elementary School, and around this time he began publishing poetry in circulating magazines. In 1904, his father's business failed, and the family traveled to Korea, where he suffered hardships. In 1908, he moved to Tokyo, where he studied literature and also learned German. In 1914, he married Nishizaki Kayo, a member of the Seito group. In 1915, he published "Autumn of the Soul" and in 1916, "Sentimental Spring," establishing his position as a poet. He also translated many works, including the complete works of Heine. However, he lived in poverty, and was influenced by the nihilistic ideas of Sakai Toshihiko and Osugi Sakae. His style changed from the pure, Christian style of his early period to anarchist style in his later years. It is said that perhaps her naturally gentle nature was to blame, or perhaps it was due to the distress of a love triangle, but she committed suicide by jumping from the steamship Sumire Maru, which was bound from Kobe to Beppu.

(Shigeru Oikawa)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：昭和5.5.19(1930)
生年：明治25.3.12(1892)
大正時代の詩人,翻訳家。鳥取県会見郡米子町道笑町に生まれる。佐太郎,いわの長男。本名清平。明道尋常小学校から角盤高等小学校に進学,このころ,回覧雑誌に詩作を発表。明治37(1904)年,父が商売に失敗したため一家は朝鮮に渡り,この地で辛酸をなめた。明治41年上京,文学を修業し,またドイツ語を学んだ。大正3(1914)年,青踏同人の西崎花世と結婚。6年『霊魂の秋』,7年『感傷の春』を出版,詩人の地位を確立。ハイネ全集など翻訳も多い。しかし生活は貧しく,堺利彦,大杉栄らから虚無的な思想の感化を受けた。初期のキリスト教的な純情な作風から,後期はアナーキスト的なものに変わった。生来の優しい性格が災いしたものか,三角関係の悩みからともいわれるが,神戸発別府行きの汽船菫丸から投身自殺した。

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