Shuji Miya

Poet. Born in Niigata Prefecture. His real name was Hajime. He graduated from Nagaoka Junior High School (now Nagaoka High School). He later moved to Tokyo and became a student of Kitahara Hakushu in 1933 (Showa 8). In 1935, he helped found the magazine Tama and became Hakushu's secretary. He was drafted into the army in 1939 and sent to the mainland, fighting mainly in Shanxi Province until he was demobilized in 1943. In 1942, he learned of Hakushu's death on the battlefield. These events were vividly sung in his collection of poems, Shanxi Province. In 1944, he married Takiguchi Eiko and was drafted again. After the war ended in 1946, his first collection of poems, Gunkei, was published. He joined the New Poets Group and was active as a leader in the postwar poetry world, publishing Shokonshu in 1948 and Shanxi Province in 1949. His 1949 publication of "The Kodokuha Manifesto" drew attention as a statement of this determination. In 1952, "Tama" was dissolved, and the following year "Cosmos" was launched, which produced many great poets. Always sticking to the common people, he continued to sing of "proof of life" such as the loneliness, anger, joy, and love of an individual person, and opened up various realms of poetry that continue to this day, such as poems about the battlefield, the workplace, family, and old age. In 1955, he became a judge for the "Asahi Poetry Circle." He has received many awards, including the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, the Yomiuri Literature Prize, the Choku Prize, and the Japan Art Academy Prize.

[Takashi Hidaka]

With a single candle burning, my wife and I listen to the sound of a dark spring.

"Miya Shuuji Collection, all 11 volumes (1980-91, Iwanami Shoten)" ▽ "Miya Shuuji's Songs, by Shimada Shuji (1987, Hanajinja)" ▽ "Miya Shuuji and His Times, by Odaka Ken (1998, Goryu Shoin)"

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歌人。新潟県生まれ。本名肇(はじめ)。長岡中学校（現、長岡高校）卒業。のち上京し、1933年（昭和8）北原白秋(はくしゅう)の門下となる。1935年『多磨(たま)』創刊に加わり、白秋の秘書となる。1939年に召集され、大陸に出征、以後1943年に解除になるまで山西省を中心に転戦する。1942年に白秋の死を戦地で知る。これらの経緯は歌集『山西省』に鮮烈に歌われた。1944年に滝口英子と結婚、再召集。終戦後の1946年、第一歌集『群鶏』刊行。新歌人集団に加わり、1948年に『小紺珠(しょうこんしゅ)』、1949年に『山西省』を刊行するなど、戦後歌壇の旗手として活躍。1949年発表の『孤独派宣言』はその決意を示すものとして注目された。1952年に『多磨』解散、翌年『コスモス』創刊、ここから多くの歌人が輩出した。つねに庶民派を貫き、一人の人間の孤独、怒り、喜び、愛といった「生の証明」を歌い続け、戦場詠、職場詠、家族詠、老いの歌など、現在につながるさまざまの領域を開いた歌人である。1955年「朝日歌壇」選者となる。毎日出版文化賞、読売文学賞、迢空(ちょうくう)賞、日本芸術院賞など、多くの賞を受賞。

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『『宮柊二集』全11巻（1980～91・岩波書店）』▽『島田修二著『宮柊二の歌』（1987・花神社）』▽『小高賢著『宮柊二とその時代』（1998・五柳書院）』

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