- Kenichi Yoshida
Infobox Writer
name = Kenichi Yoshida
caption = Yoshida Kenichi
birthdate = birth date|1912|4|1|df=y
birthplace =Tokyo ,Japan
deathdate =death date and age|1977|8|3|1912|4|1|df=y
deathplace =Yokohama ,Japan
occupation = Writer
genre = novels, English literature translations
movement =
notableworks =
influences =
influenced =nihongo|Kenichi Yoshida|吉田 健一|Yoshida Kenichi|extra=
1 April 1912 -3 August 1977 was aJapanese author andliterary critic inShowa period Japan .Early life
Yoshida was born in
Tokyo , and was the son of Prime MinisterYoshida Shigeru . His mother was the daughter of CountMakino Nobuaki . He spent his childhood abroad, accompanying his diplomat father to postings inChina ,France , and theUnited Kingdom . He studiedEnglish literature at Cambridge University, but left school without graduating, returned to Japan after one year. His début as a writer was in 1935 with a translation ofEdgar Allan Poe 's "Memorandum" ("Oboegaki").Literary career
In 1939, together
Nakamura Mitsuo andYamamoto Kenkichi , Yoshida co-founded theliterary magazine "Hihyō", which published critiques of modern French and British authors. From the late 1940s, Yoshida has a prolific output, with works ranging from translations ofWilliam Shakespeare andCharles Baudelaire andEnglish literature to fiction, with short stories andnovel s, including some lighter works including nihongo|"Saisho Onzoshi Hinkyusu"|宰相御曹司貧窮す|Prime Minister's Son Falls on Hard Times. The work "Saisho Onzoshi Hinkyusu" was titled by publisher against his wishes, so he also published a private edition the same work under the alternate title "Detarameron".Yoshida lived in Kamakura,
Kanagawa prefecture between 1946 and 1953, and afterwards kept up a long correspondence with various of the Kamakura literati, includingIshikawa Jun ,Ooka Shohei ,Kobayashi Hideo ,Mishima Yukio , andNakamura Mitsuo . He died in 1977 at the age of 65; his grave is located at the Kuboyama Reien inYokohama .Due to his upbringing in Europe, Yoshida is said to have thought in English rather than in Japanese.
References
* Kato, Shuichi. "A History of Japanese Literature". RoutledgeCurzon (1997) ISBN 1873410484
External links
* [http://www.city.kamakura.kanagawa.jp/bunka/bunjinroku/yoshida_e.htm Literary Figures of Kamakura]
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