Hoshino Tenchi
Hoshino Tenchi | |
|---|---|
 Hoshino Tenchi | |
| Born | January 10, 1862 Nihonbashi, Edo, Japan |
| Died | September 17, 1950 (aged 88) Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan |
| Occupation | writer, sword master |
| Genre | poetry, biography |
Hoshino Tenchi (星野 天知, January 10, 1862 - September 17, 1950) was the
Meiji period Japan. His true name was Hoshino Shinnosuke (星野慎之輔). Hoshino Tenchi was one of the founders of the Bungakukai literary magazine, which was highly influential in the development of modern Japanese literature and Japanese poetry
.
Biography
Hoshino was born in the
Shimazaki Toson
.
In 1892, Hoshino helped launch the Bungakukai
Kamakura, where he resided from 1893. He is also known for his biographical works on the Kamakura period historical personages Mongaku, and Abutsu-ni. Hoshino married a fellow instructor at the Meiji Girls' School, Matsui Man, in 1895. A writer herself, she occasionally published stories disparaging her husband's obsession with the martial arts. In 1900, Hoshino also established an experimental farm in Chiba Prefecture
.
From 1904, Hoshino was vice principal of the newly established Kamakura Women's School. Around this time, he also became the 8th Grand Master of the Yagyū Shingan ryū[citation needed] school of martial arts. He established the Bugei-ka, a department for the transmission of classical martial arts at the Meiji Women's College, where he also taught the Yagyū Shingan-ryū.
After his house was destroyed in the
Roman Catholic
. He died of natural causes in 1950.
References
- Croissant, Doris. Performing "Nation": Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940. Brill (2008). ISBN 9004170197
