Maeda Yugure

Poet. Born in Minamiyana Village, Osumi County, Kanagawa Prefecture (present-day Hadano City). His real name was Yozo. At the age of 21, he became a disciple of Onoe Saishu, and at the age of 25, he founded his own tanka society, Hakujitsusha, and published Sunflowers. At the age of 29, he founded Shiika (1911), which he continued to publish intermittently until his death, producing many disciples. His first collection of tanka, Harvest (1910), along with Bokusui Wakayama's collection Separation, published in the same year, marked an era, and Ota Mizuho called him a "double-poet." The collection includes the poem "Blooming trees, the day when you become my wife, April is still a long way away" and is a representative modern poem that is still widely known today. He also published 15 other poems such as "Shadows" (1912) and many essay collections, and "Water Source Region" (1932) played a leading role in free verse tanka.

[Ryuichi Ishimoto]

"The Complete Works of Maeda Yugure, 5 volumes (1972-73, Kadokawa Shoten)" ▽ "Japanese Poetry 7: Ota Mizuho, ​​Maeda Yugure, and others (Chuko Bunko)" ▽ "Maeda Toru, Biography of Maeda Yugure (1979, Ohfusha)"

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歌人。神奈川県大住(おおすみ)郡南矢名(みなみやな)村（現秦野(はだの)市）に生まれる。本名洋造。21歳のとき尾上柴舟(おのえさいしゅう)の門をたたき、25歳で自ら短歌結社「白日社」をおこし『向日葵(ひぐるま)』を発刊。さらに29歳のとき創刊した『詩歌(しいか)』（1911）を断続しながら没年まで主宰し、多くの門流を輩出させた。第一歌集『収穫』（1910）は同年刊行の若山牧水(ぼくすい)の歌集『別離』とともに一時代を画し、太田水穂(みずほ)に「比翼詩人」と称された。集中の「木に花咲き君わが妻とならむ日の4月なかなか遠くもあるかな」はいまも人口に膾炙(かいしゃ)する近代の代表歌である。ほかに『陰影』（1912）など15歌集と多くの随筆集があり、1932年（昭和7）の『水源地帯』は自由律短歌の主導的役割を果たした。

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『『前田夕暮全集』全5巻（1972～73・角川書店）』▽『『日本の詩歌7　太田水穂・前田夕暮他』（中公文庫）』▽『前田透著『評伝前田夕暮』（1979・桜楓社）』

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