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近代日本における、ある異邦人の宿命 119 The Fate of “L’Etranger” in Modern Japan Toward a Re-evaluation of Yone Noguchi HOSHINO, Ayako Yone Noguchi ( 野口米次郎 :1875-1947), the father of well-known sculptor Isamu Noguchi, was the first Japanese to publish English poetry books in both the United States and England. He wrote not only about 184 books both in English and Japanese, but also hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines published both in and outside of Japan. Twenty-four of his works are known as poetry books today while the rest tend to reflect on Japanese culture (such as art, Ukiyoe, Noh, Haiku, and life of the Japanese) and the ways he chose to expose it to the West, as well as various aspects of western culture that he explained to the Japanese, based on his ten years of life spent in England and the United States. When he passed away on July 13, 1947, obituaries were written in not only Japanese newspapers, but also noted in The New York Times. As many internationally recognized records as Noguchi has, almost nothing about Noguchi is widely known today in Japan, and only a few scholars have studied just limited areas of his life. The gap we see between his incredibly brilliant records and his being practically forgotten is immense. The biggest reason seems to be attributed to a prelude poem of his first Japanese poetry book Niju Kokusekisha No Shi (Poetry of the Dual Citizenship Holder) published in 1921. In the poem, he wrote that he was not confident in either English or Japanese. He could not be only Japanese nor only western and felt stuck in between the two cultures while not able to define himself clearly. Perhaps he wanted to express his humbleness and self-derision on the surface of
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