Chūya Nakahara
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Chūya Nakahara, born Chūya Kashimura, was a Japanese poet active during the early Shōwa period. Originally shaped by Dada and other forms of European experimental poetry, he was one of the leading ren
Nakahara Chūya Memorial Hall. © 2006 Oilstreet
Chūya with his parents
Nakahara Chūya and Takako Ueno married in 1933
Nakahara Chūya in 1936
Hideo Kobayashi
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Hideo Kobayashi was a Japanese author, who established literary criticism as an independent art form in Japan.
Chūya Nakahara
…and Shōhei Ōoka, with whom he began publishing a poetry journal, Hakuchigun (Group of Idiots). He was befriended by the influential literary critic Kobayashi Hideo, who introduced him to the French symbolist poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, whose poems he translated into Japanese. The influence of Rimbaud…
Kobayashi in 1953