WRITER

Sakutarō Hagiwara

1886 - 1942

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Sakutarō Hagiwara (萩原 朔太郎, Hagiwara Sakutarō, 1 November 1886 – 11 May 1942) was a Japanese writer of free verse, active in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He liberated Japanese free verse from the grip of traditional rules, and he is considered the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan". He published many volumes of essays, literary and cultural criticism, and aphorisms over his long career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sakutarō Hagiwara has received more than 67,329 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sakutarō Hagiwara is the 4,687th most popular writer, the 1,220th most popular biography from Japan and the 99th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Notable Works

Shi no genri
Poetics, General, Poetry
1998
Howling at the moon
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
"Born into a wealthy family, Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) was able as a young man to devote himself to poetry. Although he did not finish college, he read Western authors, including Poe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dostoevsky. His major works of poetry, written in 1917 and 1923, were Howling at the Moon and Blue, both collected in this volume, along with a substantial selection of poems from other books and a complete translation of Cat Town, a prose-poem roman. These works transformed modern Japanese poetry, and changed forever the face of the future poetic landscape in Japan."--BOOK JACKET.
1978
Aoneko
1936
Hagiwara Sakutarō zenshū
1951
Hagiwara Sakutarō shishū
1928
Hagiwara Sakutarō
Poetry, Fiction, Japanese essays
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sakutarō Hagiwara ranks 4,687 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Vautrin, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Sultan Bahu, Shudraka, Yoko Tawada, and Louis Bromfield. After him are François Tristan l'Hermite, Aleksandrs Čaks, FM-2030, Zabel Sibil Asadour, Mykola Zerov, and Park Wan-suh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Sakutarō Hagiwara ranks 219. Before him are Źmitrok Biadula, Haakon Sörvik, Johnny Hayes, Tomás Romero Pereira, Seigō Nakano, and Frank Irons. After him are John M. Stahl, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Manuel Bandeira, Bogoljub Jevtić, Eugene Burton Ely, and Elise Ottesen-Jensen. Among people deceased in 1942, Sakutarō Hagiwara ranks 188. Before him are Renia Spiegel, Sergey Chaplygin, Nevile Henderson, Ludwig Aschoff, Hernando Siles Reyes, and Frank Irons. After him are Georgios Orphanidis, Louis Borno, Kārlis Zāle, Stanisław Zaremba, Ruth Maier, and Frank Churchill.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sakutarō Hagiwara ranks 1,220 out of 6,245. Before him are Koji Suzuki (1957), Daisuke Gōri (1952), Hashimoto Gahō (1835), Masaaki Yuasa (1965), Shinobu Sekine (1943), and Yoko Tawada (1960). After him are Kansai Yamamoto (1944), Shinya Tsukamoto (1960), Akina Nakamori (1965), Yuto Nagatomo (1986), Takako Doi (1928), and Takefusa Kubo (2001).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Sakutarō Hagiwara ranks 99. Before him are Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), Saneatsu Mushanokōji (1885), Sakyo Komatsu (1931), Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), Koji Suzuki (1957), and Yoko Tawada (1960). After him are Shōhei Ōoka (1909), Riichi Yokomitsu (1898), Takeshi Shudo (1949), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Takashi Tezuka (1960), and Kitamura Tokoku (1868).

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