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Makoto Ōoka (大岡 信, Ōoka Makoto, February 16, 1931, in Mishima, Shizuoka – April 5, 2017) was a Japanese poet and literary critic.
Makoto Ooka, who passed away in April this year at the age of 86, once pointed out that the modus operandi of traditional Japanese poetry is a dynamism between two conflicting mindsets: one that is willing to let go of one’s ego and create harmony with others, and another that pursues ultimate solitude, what he called a sort of “party ...
Ōoka Makoto (born February 16, 1931, Mishima, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan—died April 5, 2017, Mishima) was a prolific Japanese poet and literary critic who was largely responsible for bringing contemporary Japanese poetry to the attention of the Western world.
Born in 1931 into a literary family (his father wrote tanka, a traditional Japanese verse form), Ōoka leapt to early prominence as an exciting new poet in the post-war literary generation.
25 de mar. de 2019 · But Beichman also enjoyed real time with the poet and critic Ōoka Makoto 大岡信 (1931–2017), who was her enduring friend and fellow scholar and translator over the course of his life. For those who know the reaches of Ōoka’s renowned poetry, he is regarded as a distinctly modern poet infused with a sensitivity to classical ...
Los dos eran una cueva que admitía el cielo, un mapa que llenaba la cueva, un mandala de amor. Y, sin embargo, de alguna manera. la mujer. Era un bosque de fragancias, era la luz del amanecer, corriendo hacia las profundidades del amanecer. Vi una sola hoja. enloquecer de alegría ante el sonido.
Ooka Makoto / 大岡信. Ooka Makoto (b.1931) is one of the most significant Japanese poets of modern times. He is also “perhaps the finest [critic of poetry] in Japan today,” in the words of Donald Keene, the renowned scholar of Japanese literature.
