Isamu Yoshii
| Isamu Yoshii | |
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Count Yoshii Isamu in January 1955
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| Native name | 吉井 勇 |
| Born |
October 8, 1886 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | November 9, 1960 (aged 74) Tokyo, Japan |
| Resting place | Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Writer, playwright and poet |
| Language | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Waseda University |
| Genre | tanka poetry, stage plays |
| Literary movement | Pan no Kai |
Count Isamu Yoshii (吉井 勇 Yoshii Isamu, October 8, 1886 - November 9, 1960) was a Japanese tanka poet and playwright active in Taishō and Shōwa 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 former samurai retainer of Satsuma Domain, and member of the House of Peers, the Privy Council and official in the Imperial Household Ministry. His aunt was the wife of Field Marshal Oyama Iwao. Yoshii began to live at his father's cottage in the Zaimokuza neighborhood of 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 the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University in 1908, but dropped out the same year to join Yosano Tekkan's Tokyo Shin-shi Sha (Tokyo New Poetry Society), and began contributing his tanka verses to the society's literary magazine, Myōjō (Bright Star). As a member of the Myōjō inner circle, he met and was influenced by Mori Ōgai, Ueda Bin, and Kitahara Hakushū.
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