Kaneko Kunen

Poet. Born in Tokyo. Real name Yutaro. Dropped out of Tokyo Prefectural Normal Middle School (now Hibiya High School). In 1893 (Meiji 26), he joined Ochiai Naofumi's Asakasha, and in 1897 was put in charge of the poetry column in Shinsei. In 1901 (Meiji 34), he published a collection of poems called Kataretsuki (One-Sided Moon). He composed gentle and romantic poems, but the following year, together with Onoe Saishu, he started a "descriptive poetry movement" against Myojo, and in 1903, he formed the Shiragiku Society, aiming to write descriptive poems about nature in opposition to the supremacy of romantic love. In 1910, he published a collection of poems called Awakened Songs, which, influenced by the naturalistic ideas of the time, had a more realistic tendency. In 1913 (Taisho 7), he founded the poetry magazine "Hikari" and in 1930 (Showa 5), ​​influenced by the emerging tanka movement, he experimented with free-style tanka, moving with the times. His poems were lukewarm, and he preferred to sing about modern cityscapes. He also wrote many enlightening tanka poems. In 1946 (Showa 21), he became a member of the Japan Art Academy.

[Takeo Fujioka]

At the end of the withered lotus fields, two duck houses are visible, and the autumn sky is high.

"Complete Collection of Meiji Literature 63: Kaneko Kunen and Other Works" (1967, Chikuma Shobo)

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歌人。東京生まれ。本名雄太郎。東京府尋常中学校（現日比谷(ひびや)高校）中退。1893年（明治26）落合直文の「あさ香社」に加わり、97年『新声』の歌欄を担当。1901年（明治34）歌集『片われ月』を刊行。温雅で浪漫(ろうまん)的な歌をつくったが、翌年、尾上柴舟(おのえさいしゅう)とともに反『明星(みょうじょう)』の「叙景詩運動」をおこし、03年「白菊会」を結成、恋愛至上主義に抗して自然の叙景歌を目ざした。10年歌集『覚めたる歌』を刊行し、当時の自然主義的思想の影響を受けて現実的傾向となる。18年（大正7）歌誌『光』を創刊、また30年（昭和5）には新興短歌運動の影響を受け自由律短歌を試み、時流とともに歩んだ。歌の特色は微温的で、近代都市風景を好んで歌った。短歌の啓蒙(けいもう)的著作も多い。46年（昭和21）芸術院会員。

［藤岡武雄］

　枯れはてし蓮田(はすだ)の末にあひる飼ふ家ふたつ見えて秋の空たかし

『『明治文学全集63　金子薫園他集』（1967・筑摩書房）』

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