Tsuneari Fukuda
Tsuneari Fukuda | |
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福田 恆存 | |
Hongō, Tokyo, Empire of Japan | |
| Died | 20 November 1994 (aged 82) Ōiso, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Occupation(s) | Dramatist, translator, literary critic |
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Tsuneari Fukuda (福田 恆存, Fukuda Tsuneari, 25 August 1912 – 20 November 1994) was a Japanese dramatist, translator, and literary critic. From 1969 until 1983, he was a professor at Kyoto Sangyo University. He became a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1981.[1]
His criticism of the
Life
Tsuneari Fukuda was born to Kōshirō and Masa Fukuda on 25 August 1912 in the
After graduating, Fukuda worked as a secondary school teacher and a publisher.[1] He began his long career as a literary critic with a contribution to the Kōdō bungaku literary magazine in 1937, the article entitled "Riichi Yokomitsu and The Author's Secret". Before and just after the Second World War, he wrote critiques of the works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Isota Kamura, and other modern Japanese writers. In 1947, Fukuda's article Ippiki to kyūjūhiki to (一匹と九十九匹), published in the Shisaku magazine, stirred up controversy about the dividing line between literature and politics, and later came to be seen as one of his representative works. From 1949, he participated in the Japanese–British cultural exchange group "Albion Club" (あるびよん・くらぶ). From 1950 onward, Fukuda's interest shifted away from general literary criticism and critiques of individual writers. Representative works from this period include Geijutsu to wa nanika (藝術とは何か; lit. 'What is Art?'), published in 1950, and Ningen, kono gekiteki naru mono (人間・この劇的なるもの; lit. 'Man, this dramatic being') published in 1956.
What made Fukuda famous, however, was his status as a lone conservative voice amidst a flourishing of progressive thought in
His representative works as a literary translator include Shakespeare's Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, and Oscar Wilde's Salome and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In the 1950s, Fukuda also wrote and produced plays, including Kitty Typhoon and also The Man Who Stroked a Dragon.[3] He was linked to Shingeki, and in 1955 he did a production of Hamlet with Hiroshi Akutagawa, son of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, playing the lead role. He also wrote a 1957 essay Directing Shakespeare, which dealt with his views on the subject of directing Shakespearean plays. Later he did a Japanese version, based on his translation, of A Midsummer Night's Dream.[4] In addition, he helped found the Kumo Theatre Company (present-day Theatre Company Subaru) and received the Yomiuri Prize multiple times.[5]
He died at the age of 82 from complications related to pneumonia at Tōkai University
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "福田恆存 ～〈戦後〉に異議あり 保守の論客～" (PDF) (in Japanese). 神奈川県立図書館. 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ISBN 978-4120044052.
- ^ "Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance: Fukuda Tsuneari". Answers.com. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ISBN 9780826492708. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ISBN 9780231144223. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
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