15 Facts About Hideo Yoshino

Hideo Yoshino was a tanka poet in Showa period Japan.

Hideo Yoshino enrolled in Keio University's School of Economics, but was forced to quit school when he developed tuberculosis with hemoptysis.

Hideo Yoshino relocated from Tokyo to Kamakura in Kanagawa prefecture in 1924, due to its reputation as a healthful environment for people with lung conditions.

Hideo Yoshino was attracted to the works of Aizu Yaichi and eventually became his pupil.

In 1926 Hideo Yoshino financed the publication of his own first poetry anthology, Tenjo gishi.

Hideo Yoshino participated in the literary coterie centered on the literary journal Kawa, to which he contributed monthly from 1928.

Hideo Yoshino developed pneumonia in 1929, and was for a time on the critical list and not expected to live.

Hideo Yoshino returned to Kamakura in 1931, and devoted his studies to folklore, ancient literature and languages, self-publishing a monthly magazine, Hideo Yoshino Fuji Monthly, and holding monthly poetry meetings.

Hideo Yoshino developed a unique style of tanka that was independent of the mainstream Araragi.

Hideo Yoshino was inspired by the ancient classic from Japanese literature, the Man'yoshu.

Hideo Yoshino divorced during World War II, and remarried after the end of the war to the widow of poet Jukichi Yagi.

Hideo Yoshino won the Yomiuri Literary Prize in 1958 for his anthology, Yoshino Hideo kashu.

Hideo Yoshino's anthologies include Seiin shu and Kansen shu.

Hideo Yoshino wrote a number of essays, including Yawarakana Kokoro and Korokono Furusato.

Hideo Yoshino's grave is at the temple of Zuisen-ji in Kamakura.