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Sagawa Chika
Aiko Kawasaki (1911–1936), also known as , was a Japanese avant-garde poet. Biography Chika Sagawa, née Aiko Kawasaki, was born in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan, in 1911. She started studies to become an English teacher, but moved to Tokyo at the age of seventeen to join her brother, Kawasaki Noboru, who was already established in literary circles. They became part of ''Arukuiyu no kurabu'' (''Arcueil Club''), a modernist literary group centred on Katué Kitasono, who championed her work. Kawasaki took on the pen-name Sagawa, from the characters for ''left'' and ''river'', a likely allusion to the Left Bank of the Seine. Her first publication was a translation of the Hungarian writer Ferenc Molnár, while her first poem, ''Konchu'' (''Insects'') was published the following year. In her translations, she focused on mainstream poets, but her own poems were influenced by surrealism. Another source cites ''Aoi Uma'' (''The Blue Horse'') as Sagawa's first poem, appearing in August 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagawa Chika
Aiko Kawasaki (1911–1936), also known as , was a Japanese avant-garde poet. Biography Chika Sagawa, née Aiko Kawasaki, was born in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan, in 1911. She started studies to become an English teacher, but moved to Tokyo at the age of seventeen to join her brother, Kawasaki Noboru, who was already established in literary circles. They became part of ''Arukuiyu no kurabu'' (''Arcueil Club''), a modernist literary group centred on Katué Kitasono, who championed her work. Kawasaki took on the pen-name Sagawa, from the characters for ''left'' and ''river'', a likely allusion to the Left Bank of the Seine. Her first publication was a translation of the Hungarian writer Ferenc Molnár, while her first poem, ''Konchu'' (''Insects'') was published the following year. In her translations, she focused on mainstream poets, but her own poems were influenced by surrealism. Another source cites ''Aoi Uma'' (''The Blue Horse'') as Sagawa's first poem, appearing in August 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
