Shizuo Ito

Poet. Born December 10, 1906 in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Literature at Kyoto Imperial University, he was employed at Osaka Prefectural Sumiyoshi Junior High School. After World War II, he was transferred to Abeno High School, but continued to teach there throughout his life. He began writing poetry around the time he graduated from university. His familiarity with Japanese classics and his love for Rilke and Hölderlin strongly influenced his style of poetry. His poems published in the literary magazine Ro attracted the attention of Yasuda Yojuro, who invited him to appear in Cogito in 1933 (Showa 8). He subsequently became a member of the Japanese Romantic School and published his first collection of poems, Lamentations for My Love (1935), establishing his position as a poet with his hard-edged yet fresh style of poetry. In 1966, he became a member of the "Four Seasons" magazine and received the Tokoku Kitamura Prize for "Summer Flowers" (1940). His third collection of poems, "Spring Hurry" (1943), strongly reflects his return to Japanese lyricism. After World War II, he published his fourth collection, "Echoes" (1947), but he was soon afflicted by pulmonary tuberculosis and died on March 12, 1953, after more than three years of battling the disease.

[Hiromi Takahashi]

"Ito Shizuo Poetry Collection" edited and annotated by Hayashi Fujima (Obunsha Bunko)" ▽ "The Complete Works of Ito Shizuo, 1 Volume (1971, Jinbun Shoin)" ▽ "Study of Ito Shizuo" edited by Fuji Masaharu (1971, Shichosha)"

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詩人。明治39年12月10日長崎県諫早(いさはや)生まれ。京都帝国大学国文科卒業後、大阪府立住吉(すみよし)中学に就職。第二次世界大戦後、阿倍野(あべの)高校に転勤するが、教員生活は生涯にわたる。詩作は大学卒業のころより始める。日本古典への精通と、リルケやヘルダーリンへの傾倒が、彼の詩風に強く影響している。同人誌『呂(ろ)』に載せた詩が保田与重郎(やすだよじゅうろう)に注目され、1933年（昭和8）『コギト』に招かれる。続いて『日本浪曼派』同人となり、処女詩集『わがひとに与ふる哀歌』（1935）を出版、その硬質で清新な詩風により、詩人としての地位を確立する。41年、『四季』同人となり、『夏花』（1940）により北村透谷(とうこく)賞を受ける。第三詩集『春のいそぎ』（1943）では日本的叙情への回帰が色濃く認められる。第二次大戦後、第四詩集『反響』（1947）を出版するが、やがて肺結核に冒され、3年余の闘病生活ののち昭和28年3月12日死去。

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『林富士馬編・注『伊東静雄詩集』（旺文社文庫）』▽『『定本伊東静雄全集』全1巻（1971・人文書院）』▽『富士正晴編『伊東静雄研究』（1971・思潮社）』

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