Yojūrō Yasuda
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Yojūrō Yasuda (保田 與重郎, Yasuda Yojūrō, April 15, 1910 - October 4, 1981[1]) was a Japanese literary critic active in Showa Period in Japan. He was a central figure in the Japan Romantic School (日本浪漫派, Nihon Rōmanha).
History[edit]
Born in Sakurai, Nara. After finishing his school education in Unebi Chugakko (Now Nara Prefectural Unebi Senior High School) and Osaka Higher School (Now part of Osaka University), where One of his classmates was the famous Japanese sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi, He commenced an undergraduate degree from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Imperial University of Tokyo.
Career[edit]
During his university years, he became a founding member of Cogito (コギト, Kogito) and Japan Romantic School (日本浪漫派, Nihon Rōmanha). Although he was originally a Marxist, he developed a critique of modern civilisation and Japanese classicism by turning to the German Romanticism based on Friedrich Hölderlin and Friedrich Schlegel.
In 1936, he won the first Ikeya Shinzaburo Prize for his first novel, The Bridge in Japan, which established him as a leading critic of his time, and from then on he was a central figure in the Japan Romantic School until the end of the Pacific War.
He was banned from public office in 1948. After the war, his speech and presence were silenced for a time, but he was reinstated in the late 1960s. This attitude was consistent from before the war.
Death[edit]
He died of lung cancer on 4 October 1981 at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases (now the Kyoto University Institute for Virus and Regenerative Medicine) Hospital in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto. His kaimyo (preceptor's name) was 身余円融普周僉然大居士 (Shinyo Enyū Fushū Sennen Daikoji).
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Further reading[edit]
- Kevin Michael Doak. Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity.
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