Isamu Yoshii (吉井勇, Yoshii Isamu); (8 October 1886 - 9 November 1960) was a Japanese tanka poet and playwright writer active in Taishō and Showa period Japan. Attracted to European romanticism in his youth, his later works were more subdued.
Yoshii Isamu was born in the elite Takanawa district Tokyo. His grandfather, Count Yoshii Tomosane was a member of the House of Peers, the Privy Council and official in the Imperial Household Ministry, and his...
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Isamu Yoshii (吉井勇, Yoshii Isamu); (8 October 1886 - 9 November 1960) was a Japanese tanka poet and playwright writer active in Taishō and Showa period Japan. Attracted to European romanticism in his youth, his later works were more subdued.
Yoshii Isamu was born in the elite Takanawa district Tokyo. His grandfather, Count Yoshii Tomosane was a member of the House of Peers, the Privy Council and official in the Imperial Household Ministry, and his aunt was the wife of Field Marshal Oyama Iwao. Yoshii began to live at his father's cottage in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture from 1887 and entered the elementary section of the Kamakura Normal School in 1891. The following year the family returned to Tokyo, but for the rest of his life, he returned to Kamakura frequently to recuperate from bouts of ill health (i.e. tuberculosis).
He started to write short verses while attending school at Tokyo Metropolitan No.1 Junior High School and Kogyokusha Junior High School.
Yoshii enrolled briefly in...
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