Vasiliy Yakovlevich Eroshenko

Japanese: エロシェンコ - えろしぇんこ(英語表記)Василий Яковлевич Ерошенко/Vasiliy Yakovlevich Eroshenko
Vasiliy Yakovlevich Eroshenko

A blind Russian poet. He studied at a school for the blind in Moscow, mastered Esperanto, and later studied in London. In 1914 (Taisho 3), he came to Tokyo and published folk tales and children's stories in Japanese and Esperanto, and formed friendships with Osugi Sakae, Kamichika Ichiko, and Nakamura Tsune. In 1914, he was sent back to Vladivostok on suspicion of being a Soviet spy, and later traveled to Beijing, where he became friends with Lu Xun and became the model for Lu Xun's novel "The Comedy of the Duck." In 1923, he returned to the Soviet Union. His Esperanto autobiography "A Page from My School Life" (1923), "The Moan of a Lonely Soul" (1923), the Japanese short story "The Story of the Lantern," and many other poems and short stories are written. Many of these are filled with the loneliness and melancholy of a wandering blind poet.

[Kusaka Tonoyoshi]

"The Complete Works of Eroshenko, edited by Ichiro Takasugi, 3 volumes (1959, Misuzu Shobo)""The Blind Poet Eroshenko, by Ichiro Takasugi (1956, Shinchosha)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ロシアの盲目詩人。モスクワの盲人学校に学び、エスペラントを習得、のちロンドンに学んだ。1914年(大正3)東京にきて、日本語とエスペラントで民話、童話を発表、大杉栄(さかえ)、神近(かみちか)市子、中村彝(つね)らと親交を結んだ。19年、ソ連のスパイの嫌疑でウラジオストクに送還され、その後、北京(ペキン)に至り、魯迅(ろじん/ルーシュン)と交友を結び、その小説『あひるの喜劇』のモデルとなった。23年ソ連に帰国。エスペラントの自伝『わが学校生活の一ページ』(1923)、『孤独な魂のうめき』(1923)、日本語の短編小説『提灯(ちょうちん)物語』その他、多くの詩、短編などがある。それらのなかには、放浪の盲目詩人の孤独と哀愁を込めたものが多い。

[草鹿外吉]

『高杉一郎編『エロシェンコ全集』全3巻(1959・みすず書房)』『高杉一郎著『盲目の詩人エロシェンコ』(1956・新潮社)』

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