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Yone Noguchi
Biography
Yone Noguchi (or Yonejirō Noguchi) was an influential English and Japanese writer. He was born on December 8, 1875 near Nagoya Japan. He was the first Japanese-born writer to publish poetry in English.
He attended Keio University in Tokyo where he became acquainted with literature. He left the school before he graduated and moved to San Francisco in 1893 where he worked for a Japanese exile newspaper. The paper focused on the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement. He continued his studies at a preparatory school for Stanford University and worked for a time as a journalist. He decided to dedicate himself to poetry, his first pieces published in The Lark magazine. Though he would primarily publish poetry, Noguchi dabbled in prose and published a few novels. His most popular piece was a collection of poetry called The Pilgrimage.
After a brief time in New York, Noguchi traveled to England where he continued to self-publish his poetry. His success in London brought him into association with other leading Literary Figures of the time such as William Butle
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Yone Noguchi
Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism
In this Japanese name, the surname is Noguchi.
Yonejirō Noguchi (野口 米次郎, Noguchi Yonejirō, December 8, 1875 – July 13, 1947) was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is known in the west as Yone Noguchi. He was the father of noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
Biography
Early life in Japan
Noguchi was born in what is now part of the city of Tsushima, near Nagoya.[1] He attended Keio University in Tokyo, where he was exposed to the works of Thomas Carlyle and Herbert Spencer, and also expressed interests in haiku and Zen. He lived for a time in the home of Shiga Shigetaka, editor of the magazine Nihonjin, but left before graduating to travel to San Francisco in November 1893.
California
Noguchi arrived in San Francisco on November 19, 1893.[2] There, he joined a newspaper run by Japanese exiles associated with the Freedom and People's Rights Movement and worked as
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Yone Noguchi: the stream of fate
Volume One: The Western Sea
By Edward Marx
Botchan Books (2019)
ISBN-13: 978-1939913050
Review by Peter Kornicki
Noguchi Yonejiro (1875-1947), who was known in the West as Yone Noguchi, had a roller-coaster of a life but his works have fallen by the wayside. Who was he? He grew up in Japan and entered Keio Gijuku (now University) but in 1893, before he had turned 18, he abandoned his studies and sailed to California, apparently without any particular object in view. There he worked as a journalist and sometimes as a domestic servant, but he also became acquainted with the American poet Joaquin Miller and other writers of the San Francisco Bay area. Perhaps as a consequence he decided that his calling was to be a poet. He published two books of poetry in English in 1897 and then moved to New York, where he published his first novel, The American diary of a Japanese girl (1901). It was at this time that he had an affair with the writer Charles Warren Stoddard, and contracted a secret marriage with Léonie Gilmou
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