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Ken'ichi Yoshida (literary scholar)

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428:, in which he introduced English slang, such as “One for the road”, and “Hair of the dog” to the Japanese public. Noted as an eccentric, Yoshida was often at odds with his politician father. On occasion, after an argument which had resulted in the termination of his financial stipend from his father, he would sit outside the International Press Club in Tokyo with an upturned hat and a sign reading “Prime Minister’s son – penniless” in hopes of generating enough embarrassment to his father that his offenses would be forgiven. 31: 278:, but dropped out and went 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. 238:, 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 575: 560: 565: 254:(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 590: 585: 470:
Yoshida died in his home in Tokyo in 1977, shortly after returning from a trip to Europe, at 65; his grave is in the Kuboyama Reien cemetery in
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into Japanese. His debut into literary criticism was an article on the works of Laforgue, published in
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between 1946 and 1953 and maintained a long correspondence with various Kamakura literati, including
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Yoshida's output was prolific in the early post-war period, with works ranging from translations of
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Yoshida's début as a writer was in 1935 with a translation of
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in May 1945 and assigned to the naval infantry brigade at
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Ken'ichi Yoshida in 1951
Tokyo
Yokohama
Yokohama
University of Cambridge
Yomiuri Prize
Noma Literary Prize
Shigeru Yoshida
Tarō Asō
Princess Tomohito of Mikasa
Japanese author
literary critic
Shōwa period
Tokyo
Prime Minister of Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
Rome
Makino Nobuaki
Qingdao
Paris
London
Tianjin
King's College
Cambridge
William Shakespeare
Charles Baudelaire
Jules Laforgue
Goldsworthy Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
French literature

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