"Biography of the Poet Ayukawa Nobuo"
Born in Toyokawa Town, Takada, Tokyo. His real name is Ryuichi Uemura, a famous Japanese poet. He first studied at Waseda Junior High School and Waseda Daiichi College, and then was admitted to the English Department of Waseda University. Ayukawa Nobuo was deeply influenced by the British poet Eliot when he was a student. He founded a poetry magazine based on Eliot's famous poem "The Waste Land". In 1937, he joined Masao Nakatong's "LU.NA" literary organization. During the war, he graduated from the English Department of Waseda University and was drafted into the army on Sumatra Island. He returned to Japan in 1941 due to illness and recuperated at a nursing home for disabled soldiers in Mikata County, Fukui Prefecture. During his convalescence, he wrote "War Notes". After the war, he participated in the official founding of "Wasteland" again in 1947 together with members of the original "Anthology", Koichi Kihara, Saburo Kuroda, etc. and became a representative figure of the "Wasteland School". However, "The Wasteland Poems" only published six issues from 1951 to 1958 and then ceased publication. But it has become a center for the advancement of postwar poetry. As a survivor of the war, he was left with both mental and physical sequelae, so his poetry is imbued with anti-war sentiment. His masterpiece "War Notes of Ayukawa Nobuo" (1956) is called "the highest monument of war literature". Other poetry collections include "The Man on the Bridge" (1963), "Collected Poems of Ayukawa Nobuo" (1955), (Collected Poems of Ayukawa Nobuo) (1964), and "Modern Poetry" (1955). Translated books include Eliot's The Uses of Poetry and the Uses of Criticism (1954).