Yoshii Isamu
| 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 writer 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).
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