Iku Takenaka (竹中郁, Takenaka Iku 1904–1982) was a Japanese poet from Hyogo prefecture. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University.[1] His best-known work is a cinepoem Rugby.[2]
He met Ryunosuke Akutagawa who wrote closet screenplays, just before Akutagawa's suicide, and then, in Akutagawa's home, he also met Tatsuo Hori, whose work 'Kaze Tachinu' inspired Hayao Miyazaki's last work. He also met Man Ray in Paris, when Ray created cinepoems, to interview Ray for a magazine.[3]
His Dharma name was Shunkōin Shisen Ikudō Koji (春光院詩仙郁道居士).
See also
edit- Fuyuhiko Kitagawa
- Fuyue Anzai
- Ryōhei Koiso - his friend[4]
References
edit- ^ 'Biography of Iku Takenaka' by Kenichi Adachi (Riron-sha) 評伝 竹中郁―その青春と詩の出発 (足立巻一・青春と詩の選書) Hyoden Takenaka Iku: Sono seishun to shi no shuppatsu (Japanese Edition)
- ^ 'Meeting things - Fragmentary memos about senses in Iku Takenaka's early poems’ by Daiichirō Tōyama 陶山大一郎・著「事象との邂逅 -竹中郁の初期詩篇における感覚についての断片的覚書」
- ^ 'Biography of Iku Takenaka' by Kenichi Adachi. page248 and page302
- ^ Biography of Iku Takenaka by Kenichi Adachi