Anzai Fuyue

Poet. Born in Nara City. Graduated from Sakai Middle School. Later, he followed his father to Dalian in Manchuria (northeastern China). Although he had the misfortune of having to amputate his right leg due to illness, he started writing poetry and founded the magazine "A" (November 1924) with Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Takiguchi Takeshi. He also participated in "Poetry and Poetic Theory" and became one of the leading promoters of modernist poetry in the Showa era. His first collection of poems, "Gunkan Mari" (1929), was followed by "Saseru Toreadoroshi" (1949), and he published six other books of poems. His famous work "Spring" (Spring), written during the early short poem movement, is a beautiful piece that beautifully captures the leisurely season of "spring" in a wide space with just one line: "A single tefu tefu crossed the Tartary Straits."

[Toshiro Tsunoda]

“Anzai Toei Complete Poems (1966, Shichosha)”

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詩人。奈良市に生まれる。堺(さかい)中学卒業。のち、父に従い満州（中国東北）の大連(だいれん)に渡る。疾患による右足切断の不幸にあったが、詩作を始め、北川冬彦、滝口武士(たけし)らと『亜(あ)』を創刊（1924.11）した。『詩と詩論』にも参加し、昭和のモダニズム詩の有力な推進者の一人となった。第一詩集『軍艦茉莉(まり)』（1929）以下、『座せる闘牛士』（1949）まで6冊の詩集がある。初期の短詩運動時代の『春』と題する作は有名で、「てふてふが一匹韃靼(だったん)海峡を渡つて行つた。」というわずか一行で、広い空間のなかにゆったりとした「春」という季節をみごとにとらえきっている。

［角田敏郎］

『『安西冬衛全詩集』（1966・思潮社）』

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