Osamu Kimata

Poet and Japanese literature scholar. Born in Shiga Prefecture. Real name Shuji. Graduated from Tokyo Higher Normal School, Department of Literature. After graduating from Miyagi Normal School and the former Toyama High School, he became a professor at Showa Women's University and Jissen Women's University after the war. Doctor of Literature. In 1928 (Showa 3), he joined the magazine Koran, presided over by Kitahara Hakushu. After publishing Tanka Minzoku and Hakushu Zasshi, he helped found Tama in 1935 and deepened his devotion to Hakushu. After Hakushu's death, he began editing Tama and organizing Hakushu's posthumous manuscripts from 1943. In 1952, ten years after Hakushu's death, he dissolved Tama, and in 1953 he founded and presided over Keisei. Kimata started out with a naturally romantic poetic quality and the influence of Hakushu, but as he experienced the deaths of his wife and eldest son, and the postwar experiences, he strengthened his humanistic inclinations. As a scholar, poet, and person, he looked into the inner world of people who honestly confront reality, and in his later years, he opened up a free-spirited state of mind in life. His poetry collections include "Koshi" (1942), "Winter Calendar" (1948), "Frozen Sky Longing" (1951), "Echoes When You Call" (1964), and "Last Year, This Year" (1967). He has written many books of poetry, including "Hakushu Research" and "Showa Tanka History." He has been the first member of the Tanka Society since 1959. He received the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize in 1974, and the Modern Tanka Grand Prize in 1982.

[Takashi Hidaka]

I stand up and look at the waves, but there is nothing I can do. I watch the winter waves of Koshi.

"Kimata Osamu Complete Collection of Poems" (1985, Meiji Shoin)" ▽ "Yoshino Masao, Criticism of Kimata Osamu's Works" (1973, Tanka Shimbunsha)" ▽ "Yoshino Masao, Kimata Osamu's Best Poems" (1979, Tanka Shimbunsha)

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歌人、国文学者。滋賀県生まれ。本名修二。東京高等師範学校文科卒業。宮城師範、旧制富山高等学校を経て、戦後、昭和女子大学、実践女子大学教授となる。文学博士。1928年（昭和3）に北原白秋(はくしゅう)主宰の『香蘭(こうらん)』に入会。『短歌民族』『白秋襍誌(ざっし)』を経て、1935年に『多磨(たま)』の創刊に加わり白秋への傾倒を深める。白秋の死後、1943年より『多磨』の編集と白秋の遺稿整理にあたる。白秋没後10年の1952年に『多磨』を解散、1953年に『形成』を創刊、主宰する。生来の浪漫(ろうまん)的な詩質と白秋の影響をもとに出発した木俣だが、妻や長男の死、戦後の経験など人生の悲苦を重ねるなかで、人間主義的な志向を強めていく。学者、歌人、生活者として誠実に現実に立ち向かう人間の内面を見つめ、晩年は自在な人生的境地を開く。歌集に『高志(こし)』（1942）、『冬暦』（1948）、『凍天遠慕』（1951）、『呼べば谺(こだま)』（1964）、『去年(こぞ)今年』（1967）など。歌書に『白秋研究』『昭和短歌史』など多数。1959年より歌会始撰者(せんじゃ)。1974年に芸術選奨文部大臣賞、1982年に現代短歌大賞を受賞。

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『『木俣修全歌集』（1985・明治書院）』▽『吉野昌夫著『評論木俣修作品史』（1973・短歌新聞社）』▽『吉野昌夫著『木俣修の秀歌』（1979・短歌新聞社）』

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