Shogo Shiratori

Japanese: 白鳥省吾 - しらとりしょうご

Born: February 27, 1890 in Tsuchidate, Miyagi
[Died] August 27, 1973. Poet from Chiba. Real name: Seigo. Graduated from Waseda University, Department of English Literature in 1913. Participated in Hitomi Tomei's "Drama and Poetry" and other publications, and published the collection of poems "One Man in the World" (1914) in colloquial free verse, drawing attention as a naturalist poet from Waseda. Resonating with the democratic and nature poetic style of W. Whitman, he published "Whitman Poems" (19) in an abridged translation from "Leaves of Grass." He became a leader of the popular poets school, which included Fukuda Masao, Hyakuta Soji, and Tomita Saika, and became a leading figure in the Taisho era poetry world, rivaling the artistic school of poets, including Hinatsu Konosuke, Hagiwara Sakutaro, Saijo Yaso, Muroo Saisei, and Sato Haruo. His poetry collections such as “Love of the Earth” (19), “On the Way to Paradise” (21), and “The Flag of Coexistence” (22) contain many peasant poems, anti-war poems, and anti-war poems based on democracy.

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[生]1890.2.27. 宮城，築館
[没]1973.8.27. 千葉
詩人。本名，省吾 (せいご) 。 1913年早稲田大学英文科卒業。人見東明の『劇と詩』などに参加，詩集『世界の一人』 (1914) を口語自由詩で発表して早大系の自然主義詩人として注目された。 W.ホイットマンの民主主義的，自然詩人的詩風に共鳴し『ホイットマン詩集』 (19) を『草の葉』から抄訳刊行して，福田正夫，百田宗治，富田砕花ら民衆詩派のリーダー的存在となり，日夏耿之介，萩原朔太郎，西条八十，室生犀星，佐藤春夫ら芸術派と対抗する大正詩壇の雄となった。『大地の愛』 (19) ，『楽園の途上』 (21) ，『共生の旗』 (22) などの詩集にはデモクラシーに立脚した農民詩，反戦詩ないし厭戦詩が多い。

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