Yagi Jūkichi

Infobox Writer
name = Jūkichi Yagi


caption = Yagi Jūkichi
birthdate = birth date|1898|2|9|df=y
birthplace = Tokyo, Japan
deathdate = death date|1927|10|26|df=y
deathplace = Tokyo, Japan
occupation = school teacher
genre = religious poetry
movement =
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influences =
influenced = nihongo|Jūkichi Yagi|八木重吉|Yagi Jūkichi|extra=9 February 1898 - 26 October 1927 was a Japanese poet on modern religious themes, active in late Taishō and for the first few years of Shōwa period Japan.

Biography

Born in Tokyo, Yagi attended the Kanagawa Prefectural Normal School in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, where he converted to Methodism, and became attracted to the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. In 1919, he was baptized at the Komagome Christian Church in Tokyo. He remained a devout Protestant all his short life, but migrated to Non-Church Christianity ("Mukyōkai") as advocated by Uchimura Kanzō.

After graduation, Yagi taught at the Mikage Normal School in Hyōgo Prefecture, and he began to write verse as an expression of his faith. He published his first collection of poems "Aki no Hitome" ("Autumn Eye") in 1925. Although Yagi contributed several pieces to poetry magazines, he remained shy of literary circles.

Hospitalized with tuberculosis in 1926, he died on October 26 1927. It was only after his death and the publication of "Mazushiki Shinto" ("Humble Believer"), "Yagi Jukichi Shishu" ("Yagi Jukichi Anthology"), and "Kami O Yobu" ("Talk to God") that he gained widespread recognition.

ee also

*Japanese literature
*List of Japanese authors

References

* Keene, Donald. "Dawn to the West". Columbia University Press (1998). ISBN 0231114354

External links

* [http://www.city.kamakura.kanagawa.jp/english/bunjin/yagi_e.htm Literary figures from Kamakura]

Persondata
NAME= Yagi, Jūkichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= 八木重吉 (Japanese); Yagi Jūkichi
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Japanese poet
DATE OF BIRTH= 9 February 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH= Tokyo, Japan
DATE OF DEATH= 26 October 1927
PLACE OF DEATH= Tokyo, Japan