Bochō Yamamura
Illustration — Yamamura Bochō January 10, 1884 – December 8, 1924 was a Japanese writer, poet and songwriter. Bochō was born Tsuchida Hakkujū to a peasant family in present-day Takasaki, Gunma and struggled to become educated; his family's poverty prevented him from finishing elementary school. Nevertheless, he continued to study and educate himself to the point where he was hired to teaching at his former primary school as the age of fifteen.
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Bochō Yamamura

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- Born
- 1884 · Nagaoka.
- Died
- 1924
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer · missionary
- Languages
- Japanese
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Illustration — Yamamura Bochō January 10, 1884 – December 8, 1924 was a Japanese writer, poet and songwriter. Bochō was born Tsuchida Hakkujū to a peasant family in present-day Takasaki, Gunma and struggled to become educated; his family's poverty prevented him from finishing elementary school. Nevertheless, he continued to study and educate himself to the point where he was hired to teaching at his former primary school as the age of fifteen.
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Born at Nagaoka in 1884, died in 1924.
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山村暮鳥(『現代日本詩人全集』)
『現代日本詩人全集: 全詩集大成 第4巻』東京創元社、1953年12月25日
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1884
Bochō Yamamura born at Nagaoka.
1924
Bochō Yamamura died.
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- 1.Hirawa, Kōzō. 山村暮鳥: 生涯と作品. 崙書房. 1976.
- 2.Zanotti, Pierantonio. Aborted Modernism: The Semantics of the Avant-garde in Yamamura Bochō's 'Prismism'. Brill. 286–309. 2012-01-01. 978-90-04-21130-8.
- 3.Günter Berghaus. Handbook of International Futurism. De Gruyter. 2018. 978-3-11-027356-4.
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