was a
Japanese poet active during the
Taishō and
Shōwa periods of
Japan
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.
Biography
Motomaro Senge was born in
Tokyo as the younger son of the
Shinto high priest of
Izumo-taisha in
Shimane Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Shimane Prefecture is the second-least populous prefecture of Japan at 665,205 (February 1, 2021) and has a geographic area of 6,708.26 km2. Shimane Prefecture borders Yamaguc ...
, who was also a member of the
House of Peers. He was a member of the ''
Shirakaba
The was an influential Japanese literary coterie, which published the literary magazine '' Shirakaba'', from 1910 to 1923.
History
In 1910, a loose association of alumni of the prestigious Gakushuin Peer’s School in Tokyo began a literary s ...
'' ("White Birch") literary circle, and published many of his poems in their
literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...
. Save for xenophobic poems written during World War II, his poetry reflects the philosophy of
humanism with an optimistic perspective on the world. He was a prolific author, publishing as many as 30-40 works per month. His poems tend toward minimalism and describe everyday events and scenes, without resort to excessive sentimentality.
His anthology, ''Jibun wa mita'' (“I Saw”, 1918), contains the poem ''Kuruma no oto'' (“Noise of the Carts”), which often appears in Japanese collections of Taisho period poetry. His longer work, ''Mukashi no ie'' (“House of Long Ago”, 1929), is
autobiographical, describing his aristocratic background.
[''Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia'', Kodansha, vol. 2, p. 1345,]
See also
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Japanese literature
Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or , a Chinese-Japanes ...
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List of Japanese authors
This is an alphabetical list of writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language.
Writers are listed by the native order of Japanese names, family name followed by given name to ensure consistency although some ...
External links
e-texts of worksat
Aozora Bunko
1888 births
1948 deaths
Writers from Tokyo
20th-century Japanese poets
Izumo clan
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