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Chūya Nakahara (中原 中也, Nakahara Chūya, 29 April 1907 – 22 October 1937), born Chūya Kashimura (柏村 中也, Kashimura Chūya), was a Japanese poet active during the early Shōwa period. Originally shaped by Dada and other forms of European (mainly French) experimental poetry, he was one of the leading renovators of Japanese ...
Dec 6, 2015 · Over a short lifetime, Nakahara Chuya (1907-1937) was a major innovator along lines originally shaped by Dada and other, earlier forms of European, largely French, experimental poetry.
He was never popular enough to be counted among the mainstream of poets but was only really accepted by the critics Kobayashi Hideo and Kawakami Tetsutaro. However his verses have now gained a wide following and he is accepted as a truly representative poet of the early Showa era.
Feb 11, 2024 · Nakahara Chuya was a Japanese poet who is considered one of the most important figures in modern Japanese literature. His poems are often characterized by their dark and pessimistic themes, but they are also infused with a deep sense of beauty and lyricism.
Chūya Nakahara (29 April 1907 - 22 October 1937) was a poet active in early Shōwa period Japan. Initially, Chūya favored poetry in the Japanese traditional tanka format, but he was later (in his teens) attracted to the modern free verse styles advocated by Dadaist poet Takahashi Shinkichi and by Tominaga Tarō.
Chuya Nakahara was a Japanese early modernist of conflicting impulses: apolitical but iconoclastic; a progressive formalist; occasional swain of his own urban pastorals; an agnostic singer of prelapsarian hymns.
Jan 1, 2001 · Born in 1907, Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan’s early modern poets. A bohemian romantic, his death at the early age of thirty, coupled with the delicacy of his imagery, have led to him being compared to the greatest of French symbolist poets.
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