HAGIWARASAKUTARO (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world.
Readers accustomed to the laconic half-statements of traditional Japanese poems in the three- and five-line forms of the haiku and the tanka will be surprised by the sheer power and the sustained lyricism of Hagiwara's uncompromising statements of the world's truth as he saw it.
For Hagiwara is a poet who can stand comparison with such giants of the world of modern poetry as Rimbaud, Rilke, Eliot and Lorca.
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HagiwaraSakutaro (萩原 朔太郎, November 1,1886 - May 11,1942) is a Japanese author.
HagiwaraSakutaro's Surrealist poetry emanates this powerful linking of juxtaposed imagery with an added touch of poetic flair and emotion which sets it apart from the minimalism of pure Surrealist poetry and the laconic terseness of the traditional Japanese haiku.
For both Hagiwara and Japan, this is a search for meaning and for a personal identity, used to position oneself and decide what path to take in life.
Hagiwara's brooding is the embodiment of a new world of questions that faced Japan as promises and opportunities were opened for the nation as it stood at the crossing between old and new.
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In 1938 HagiwaraSakutaro (18861942) published an essay entitled Nihon e no kaiki (The Return to Japan) in which he called for an end to Japans madly copying the West since the Meiji Restoration and a return to things Japanese.
By exploring Hagiwaras own works and citing various critics, this study argues that Hagiwara never turned away from the West, nor showed signs of returning to things Japanese.
The publication of Nihon e no kaiki demonstrates that at deeply troubled times when it was more and more difficult for artists to maintain their integrity, HagiwaraSakutaro, too, found himself tending increasingly to jingoism.
HagiwaraSakutaro (1886-1942) is possibly the most accomplished so far of Japan's Western-style or 'modern' poets, and one can see why he has been called 'the Japanese Baudelaire.' I think one can also see why Baudelaire is never likely to be called 'the French Hagiwara,' even by the Japanese.
In introducing his dexterous translations, Graeme Wilson speaks of Hagiwara's having achieved 'universality': if by this he alludes to a successful fusing of native and foreign literary characteristics he is more surely correct than if he is claiming a central human relevance for the poet.
Wilson is of the opinion that the intellectual elements in Hagiwara's later poetry adulterate or even sour his earlier pure lyricism.
Just as "progressive" Western artists and intellectuals sought to overcome the epistemological and aesthetic dead-ends within their own traditions, Hagiwara as a Japanese Romantics, imagined "Japan" as a utopic cure, in an overcoming of modernity.
In the 1930s, inspired by Hagiwara Sakutarô's call to "return to Japan", the Japanese Romantics assembled critical arguments and poetic artifacts, informed by a Schopenhauerian notion of artistic will as synonymous with national spirit.
Japanese modernity, no longer understood in terms of material equivalence alone (equally industrialized, rationalized), was trans-formed into a spiritual project of overcoming the modern and the West through the nostalgic construction of a cultural essence.
Hagiwara Sakutarô is the Sphinx of our modern poetry Dr. Frederick W. Kurth skillfully uses Sakutarôs poems in order to
Kurths imaginary dialogue with Hagiwara Sakutarô is at once hilarious and illuminating.
"HagiwaraSakutaro was the greatest modern Japanese poet, known for his clear if disturbing vision of human nature.
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Hagiwara's own style developed slowly; support from his father relieved him of financial worries and enabled him to work at his own pace.
His difficult style was not immediately understood, although one of the leaders of the Japanese literary world, the novelist Mori Ogai, was impressed by his mode of expression.
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We are reminded, in particular, of a seminal large-format portrait in 'sosaku hanga' — Onchi's 1943 portrait of the tragic poet Hagiwara Sakutarô (1888-1942) — see image at lower left.
The post-war demand for impressions of the Hagiwara image was high, but Onchi had printed only seven or eight experimental impressions.
Then, in 1949, Sekino printed an edition of fifty impressions more or less under Onchi's supervision (see the illustration below left for one of the impressions printed by Sekino).
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This work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri, one of the most important attempts at a theory of literature written in the modern period.
HAGIWARASAKUTARO (1886-1942) was not only an original poet but also a perceptive and lonely literary critic.
This book, in his own words, "is not a collection of fragmentary writings, but a thoroughly systematic and organized discourse" on poetry and other related arts.
"Hagiwara Sautaro and the Mad Dog of National Narratives, "Journal of the Association for the interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, 7.1-2 (Autumn 2001-Sprint 2002).
"The Illness of Prose: HagiwaraSakutaro and the status of Poetry in the Modern, " Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Fall 2002, volume 4, number 1.
"Japan" as Poetic Trave: the Japanese Romanticism of HagiwaraSakutaro, "Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Selected Papers, 2002.
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Born into a wealthy family, HagiwaraSakutaro (1886â1942) was able as a young man to devote himself to poetry.
Born in a wealthy family, Hagiwara read Western authors such as Poe, Nietzsche, Schopenhaurer, and Dojstoevsky, devoting himself early in the century to create a new Japanese poetics.
He is the author of several books of poetry, a work of fiction, and Principles of Poetry.
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I cannot comment on the valuation of the Hirai version, but the Sekino printing seems to be in line with other Sekino large portrait prints of a limited edition.
: RE: Onchi's HagiwaraSakutaro : At the Judah collection sale of April 1998 a copy of the Sekino version of this print in fairly good condition sold for $4,600.00 including commission.
: : Hi, : : Does anyone know what the going price is for a copy of Onchi's famous Portrait of poet HagiwaraSakutaro, the author of Ice Islands.
Book Review: The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory (London & New York: Routledge, 1999), by Michael S. Molasky, in Monumenta Nipponica vol.
"Escaping the Impasse in the Discourse on National Identity: Hagiwara Sakutarô, Sakaguchi Ango, and Nishitani Keiji." In New Historicism and Japanese Literary Studies: Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies, vol.
Focuses on works by Hagiwara Sakutarô and Hayashi Fusao.