Background
Kotaro Takamura was born on March 13, 1883 in Tokyo, Japan. Takamura was the son of Japanese sculptor Takamura Kōun.
Chieko and Kōtarō
(Contains poems, haiku, shi, and tanka sequences, translat...)
Contains poems, haiku, shi, and tanka sequences, translated from the Japanese into English by Hiroaki Sato. Includes notes to the poems.
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1980
(The Four Seasons of Mountain is the collection of represe...)
The Four Seasons of Mountain is the collection of representative prose authored by Takamura Koutarou, a modern Japanese poet and sculptor. The book collects tens of prose that record his lonely life in the mountains, describes the differences of four seasons in the mountain, discusses the relationship between human being and the nature, and shares his comprehension about himself and the world. The book, a Chinese translation version, is adapted based on the first issue published in the beginning of 1950s with the aim of presenting the typical writing style and artistic form of Takamura Koutarou, who is a Japanese author playing important role in literary circle but not well known by Chinese readers.
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光太郎 高村
Kotaro Takamura was born on March 13, 1883 in Tokyo, Japan. Takamura was the son of Japanese sculptor Takamura Kōun.
Kotaro Takamura graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1902, where he studied sculpture and oil painting. He studied in New York, at the Art Students League of New York City in 1906, London in 1907, and in Paris in 1908, returning to Japan in 1909.
Returning home studied waka poetry under Hiroshi Yosano and then became a member of Shirakaba (artists association).
His sculptural work shows strong influence both from Western work (especially Auguste Rodin, whom he idolized) and from Japanese traditions.
Kotaro Takamura is also famous for his poems, and especially for his 1941 collection Chiekoshō literally "Selections of Chieko", in English titled Chieko's sky after one of the poems therein), a collection of poems about his wife, the oil painter, paper artist and early member of the Japanese feminist movement, Chieko Takamura née Naganuma, who died in 1938. Among his works are "Complete Works of Modern Poets" in nine volumes, Chielco-Sho (poems dedicated to his wife Chieko) and "The Language of Rodin".
(The Four Seasons of Mountain is the collection of represe...)
(Contains poems, haiku, shi, and tanka sequences, translat...)
1980(Japanese Edition)