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Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism

In this Japanese name, the surname is Noguchi.

Yonejirō Noguchi (野口 米次郎, Noguchi Yonejirō, December 8, 1875 – July 13, 1947) was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese.

He is known in the west as Yone Noguchi.

He was born on December 8, near Nagoya Japan.

Yone Noguchi.

Yone Noguchi (father of Isamu Noguchi, the internationally renowned sculptor and designer) was the first Japanese-born writer to publish poetry in English.

Yonejiro Noguchi was born in in Tsushima, near Nagoya, the fourth son of a merchant Dembei Noguchi and his wife Kuwa.

Noguchi has been described as an opportunist, a fifth-rate poet, and as a strident nationalist, and doubts have been raised about his command of English.

He was the father of noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi.

Biography

Early life in Japan

Noguchi was born in what is now part of the city of Tsushima, near Nagoya.^[1] He attended Keio University in Tokyo, where he was exposed to the works of Thomas Carlyle and Herbert Spencer, and also expressed interests in haiku and Zen.

He lived for a time in the home of Shiga Shigetaka, editor of the magazine Nihonjin, but left before graduating to travel to San Francisco in November 1893.

California

Noguchi arrived in San Francisco on November 19, 1893.^[2] There, he joined a newspaper run by Japa