Noriko Ibaragi
Noriko Ibaragi (茨木 のり子, Ibaragi Noriko) was a Japanese poet, playwright, essayist,
Biography
Early life
Noriko Ibaragi was born in
Career
After seeing A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Imperial Theatre, Ibaragi decided to become a playwright. In 1946, she was nominated for a Yomiuri Prize (読売新聞戯曲第1回募集) for her first play, Tohotsumioyatachi (とほつみおやたち).[4] In 1948, Ibaragi wrote children's stories Kai no ko puchikyū (貝の子プチキュー) and Gan no kurukoto (雁のくる頃), both broadcast on NHK radio.
In 1950, she married Miura Yasunobu, a physician, and moved to Tokorozawa in Saitama and began submitting her works to the Shigaku (詩学) magazine. Her poetry, Isamashī uta (いさましい歌) was selected for publication on the September volume in 1950.
In 1953, she co-founded the poetry journal Kai (Oars) with Hiroshi Kawasaki, another writer for Shigaku. Although the first volume of Kai only included works by Ibaragi and Kawasaki, they recruited luminaries Shuntarō Tanikawa, Yūjirō Funaoka, Hiroshi Yoshino, and Hiroshi Mizuo as contributors.
In 1976, at the age of fifty, Ibaragi decided to learn Korean as a second language. She corresponded with the Korean poet
Her poetry collection Yorikakarazu (倚りかからず) published in 1999 was featured on the 16 October edition of
Death
Ibaragi died on 19 February 2006 from a brain hemorrhage.[8] As she lived alone, she was discovered in her bed two days later. She had already prepared a will three months earlier; she had also written out a farewell letter and had it printed, ready to send to some two hundred of her friends and correspondents.[8]
Works
Poetry collections
- Mienai Haitatsufu (見えない配達夫), 1958
- Yorikakarazu (倚りかからず), 1999
References
- ^ "Ibaragi Noriko". Kotobanku (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
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- ^ "Noriko Ibaragi". Modern Poetry in Translation. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ "The University of British Columbia" 讀賣新聞演劇文化賞 晴れの入選・二名篇. Yomiuri Shinbun (in Japanese). 21 September 1946.
- ^ "茨木のり子 "個"として美しく ~発見された肉声~". NHK クローズアップ現代+. NHK. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ 読売文学賞 研究・翻訳賞・歴代受賞者作品のデータ. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ 茨木のり子さんの詩集『倚りかからず』(天声人語). Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 16 October 1999. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
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