Yun Tongju - Into Space (English name)

Japanese: 尹東柱 - いんとうちゅう（英語表記）Yun Tongju

Born December 30, 1917 in Myeongdong, North Manchuria
[Died] February 16, 1945. Korean poet from Fukuoka. Childhood name: Kaihwan. After graduating from Yeonhee College, he came to Japan. While studying English at Doshisha University, he was arrested by the Japanese police for his involvement in the independence movement and died in prison in Fukuoka Prison. After liberation in 1948, his literary friends published his posthumous collection of poems, "Sky, Wind, Stars and Poetry." While his works show a fierce sense of resistance in solitude, most of them are pure lyric poems filled with self-sacrificial love for humanity. He is a poet who most purely embodied the noble and sensitive self-consciousness of colonial intellectuals, and is a gem who adorns the void of Korean literature in the early 1940s, when all literary activity was not permitted under Japan's extreme oppression. His representative works include "A Night of Counting Stars," "Prologue," "Cross," and "Self-Portrait."

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Japanese:

[生]1917.12.30. 満州，北間島明東
[没]1945.2.16. 福岡
朝鮮の詩人。幼名，海煥。延禧専門学校を経て渡日，同志社大学英文科在学中，独立運動を理由に日本警察に逮捕され，福岡刑務所で獄死。解放後の 1948年，文友の手によって遺稿詩集『空と風と星と詩』が刊行された。作品は，孤高のうちに激しい抵抗意識をみせる一方，自己犠牲的人間愛に満ちた清純な抒情詩がほとんどである。植民地知識人の気高く繊細な自意識を最も清く形象化した詩人であり，40年代前期，すなわち日本の極端な弾圧のもとで，一切の文学活動が許されなかった朝鮮文学の空白期を飾る珠玉のような存在である。代表作は『星かぞえる夜』『序詩』『十字架』『自画像』など。

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