Hirato Renkichi

Japanese: 平戸廉吉 - ひらと・れんきち

Year of death: July 20, 1922
Year of birth: December 9, 1893 (Meiji 27)
A poet from the Taisho period. His real name was Kawabata Shoichi. Born in Osaka, he dropped out of Sophia University. He studied French and Italian. He seems to have started writing poetry around the end of the Meiji period, but from around 1916 (Taisho 5), when he became involved with Kawaji Ryuko's Shoko Poetry Society, he became involved in creative activities based on the new European poetry movement. In 1917, he published a new work in the inaugural issue of the magazine Nihon Shijin, which was run by Ryuko, and declared the Japanese Futurist movement. He used a lot of onomatopoeia and symbols, and type of different sizes, and created what he called a fourth aspect of poetry, which was equivalent to French Expressionism. However, this manifesto was an imitation of one published in Figaro by the Italian poet Marinetti in 1909, and was known in Japan through the translation by Mori Ogai. Renkichi was a practical writer who made such claims, but he died young from poverty and illness. <Works> Hirado Renkichi Poetry Collection <References> Chiba Nobukazu, Modern Poetry and Poets

(Shigeru Oikawa)

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没年：大正11.7.20(1922)
生年：明治27.12.9(1893)
大正時代の詩人。本名川畑正一。大阪生まれ,上智大学中退。フランス語,イタリア語を学ぶ。明治末ごろから詩作を始めたらしいが,川路柳虹の曙光詩社と関係を持った大正5(1916)年ごろから,ヨーロッパの新しい詩運動に基づいた創作活動に携わり,10年,柳虹主宰の『日本詩人』創刊号誌上に新しい試みの作品を発表するとともに,日本未来派運動を宣言。擬声語や記号を多用し,大きさの異なる活字を使い,フランスの表現主義などに相当する第四側面の詩というものを作った。ただし,この宣言は1909年,イタリアの詩人マリネッティが『フィガロ』に発表したものの模倣であり,森鴎外の訳などにより日本でも知られていた。廉吉はそういう主張の実作者であったが,貧困と病気から夭折した。<著作>『平戸廉吉詩集』<参考文献>千葉宣一『近代の詩と詩人』

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