Ken'ichi Yoshida (literary scholar)
| Ken'ichi Yoshida | |
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Ken'ichi Yoshida in 1951
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| Native name | 吉田 健一 |
| Born |
1 April 1912 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | 3 August 1977 (aged 65) Yokohama, Japan |
| Resting place | Kuboyama Reien, Yokohama |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | novels, English literature translations |
| Notable awards |
Yomiuri Prize (1957 and 1971) Noma Literary Prize (1970) |
| Relatives |
Shigeru Yoshida (father) Yukiko Yoshida (mother) Tarō Asō (nephew) Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (niece) |
Ken'ichi Yoshida (吉田 健一 Yoshida Ken'ichi?, 1 April 1912 – 3 August 1977) was a Japanese author and literary critic in Shōwa period Japan.
Yoshida was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of future Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Yoshida, who at the time was a Japanese diplomat in Rome. His mother Yukiko, a daughter of Count Makino Nobuaki, left Tokyo soon after Ken'ichi's birth to join her husband, so he was raised at the Makino household during the first few years of his life. He started living with his parents at the age of six, when his father was posted to Qingdao, China. Thereafter he lived in Paris, London, and Tianjin (where he studied at a school for British children) before moving back to Tokyo where he graduated from secondary school. In October 1930 he enrolled at King's College of the University of Cambridge, where was interested in the works of William Shakespeare, Charles Baudelaire, and Jules Laforgue. He became a student of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, but dropped out and back to Tokyo in February 1931, on Dickinson's advice that in order to devote his life to literature he should live in Japan. During the next few years he studied French at the Athénée Français in Kanda, Tokyo.
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