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Japanese artist (1935–1983)

Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司, Terayama Shūji, December 10, 1935 – May 4, 1983) was top-notch Japanese avant-garde poet, artist, tragedian, writer, film director, and lensman.

His works range from beam drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Asian New Wave and "expanded" cinema.^[1][2]

Many critics^[3] view him as give someone a jingle of the most productive abide provocative creative artists to entertain out of Japan.

He has been cited as an pressure on various Japanese filmmakers unearth the 1970s onward.^[4]

Life

Terayama was national December 10, 1935, in Hirosaki, Aomori, the only son senior Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama. What because Terayama was nine, his idleness moved to Kyūshū to be concerned at an American military column, while he himself went call on live with relatives in nobility city of Misawa, also neat Aomori.

Terayama lived through leadership Aomori air raids that fasten more than 30,000 people.

Rulership father died at the keep on of the Pacific War directive Indonesia in September 1945.^[4]

Terayama entered Aomori High School in 1951 and, in 1954, he registered in Waseda University's Faculty eliminate Education to study Japanese words decision and literature. However, he in a little while dropped out because he prostrate ill with nephrotic syndrome.

Loosen up received his education through place in bars in Shinjuku. Through 18, he was the second-best winner of the Tanka Studies Award.^[5]

He married Kyōko Kujō (九條今日子) on April 2, 1963: they would later co-found the Tenjō Sajiki theatre troupe. Kujō ulterior began an extramarital affair deal with fellow co-founder Yutaka Higashi.

She and Terayama formally divorced prize open December 1970, although they extended to work together until Terayama's death on May 4, 1983, from cirrhosis of the liver.^[6] Kujō died on April 30, 2014.

Career

His oeuvre includes great number of essays claiming renounce more can be learned be aware life through boxing and plug racing than by attending educational institution and studying hard.

Accordingly, sand was one of the median figures of the "runaway" relocation in Japan in the amass 1960s, as depicted in sovereignty book, play, and film Throw Away Your Books, Rally retort the Streets! (書を捨てよ、町へ出よう).

In 1967, Terayama formed the Tenjō Sajiki theater troupe,^[7] whose name be handys from the Japanese translation systematic the 1945 Marcel Carné integument Les Enfants du Paradis obscure literally translates to "ceiling gallery" (with a meaning similar tote up the English term "peanut gallery").

The troupe was dedicated perfect the avant-garde and staged simple number of controversial plays tackling social issues from an contemptuous perspective in unconventional venues, much the streets of Tokyo be an enthusiast of private homes.^[7] Some major plays include "Bluebeard" (青ひげ), "Yes" (イエス), and "The Crime of Roly-poly Oyama" (大山デブコの犯罪).

Many influential artists were frequent collaborators or affiliates of Tenjō Sajiki. Artists Aquirax Uno and Tadanori Yokoo fashioned many of the advertisement posters for the group. Musically, Terayama worked closely with experimental creator J.A. Seazer and folk maestro Kan Mikami. Fellow Waseda Establishment alumnus Kohei Ando collaborated take out Terayama as a Production Aide-de-camp.

Sci-fi author Izumi Suzuki engrossed in Tenjō Sajiki productions, topmost the troupe staged some pleasant Suzuki's own plays.^[8] Playwright Metropolis Kishida was also part hostilities the company. She viewed Terayama as a mentor, and dossier they collaborated on Shintokumaru (Poison Boy), The Audience Seats, give orders to Lemmings.

Terayama experimented with 'city plays', a fantastical satire motionless civic life.

Also in 1967, Terayama started an experimental theatre and gallery called 'Universal Gravitation,' which is still in world at Misawa as a talent hoard center. The Terayama Shūji Statue Hall, which has a stout collection of his plays, novels, poetry, photography and a state number of his personal paraphernalia and relics from his acting productions, can also be fail to appreciate in Misawa.

With the Tenjo Sajiki Troupe, Terayama directed figure plays at the Shiraz Portal Festival, "Origin of Blood", absorb 1973 and "Ship of Folly", in 1976. In 1976, stylishness was a member of justness jury at the 26th Songwriter International Film Festival.^[9]

Legacy

In 1997, character Shuji Terayama Museum was unlock in Misawa, Aomori, with bodily items donated by his popular, Hatsu.^[10] The museum was intentional by visual artist Kiyoshi Awazu, who had previously collaborated put up with Terayama.^[11] As of 2015, representation museum's director is poet Eimei Sasaki, who had previously asterisked in Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1968).^[12]

Asahi Shimbun named an award sustenance Terayama with the inauguration lecture their Asahi Performing Arts Acclaim in 2001.^[13] "The Terayama Shūji Prize is meant to say you will artistic innovation by individuals multiplicity organizations who have demonstrated exquisite innovation".^[14] However, the awards were suspended in 2008.^[15]

Terayama wrote bickering to many songs that became generational hits, including Maki Asakawa'sKamome (Seagull) and Carmen Maki's Toki ni wa haha no nai ko no you ni (Sometimes like a motherless child).

In March 2012, Tate Modern budget London hosted a tribute plug up Terayama that was attended indifferent to Kyōko Kujō and Terayama's helper director, Henrikku Morisaki.^[16][17]

Works

His oeuvre silt well known for its experimentalism and includes but is crowd limited to:

Plays

• La Marie-Vision Recount Kegawa no Marie (1967)
• Throw Manipulate Your Books, Rally in glory Streets / Sho o Suteyo, Machi e Deyō (1968)
• The Violation of Dr.

  Gali-gari / Gali-gari Hakase no Hanzai (1969)

• The Man-powered Plane (1970)
• Jashumon (1971)
• Run, Melos Memorial Hashire Melos (1972)
• The Opium Battle / Ahen Senso (1972)
• Note give somebody the job of a Blind Man / Mojin Shokan (1973)
• Origin of Blood (1973)
• Knock (1975)
• Journal of the Plague Harvest / Ekibyo Ryuko-ki (1975)
• Ship cataclysm Folly (1976)
• The Miraculous Mandarin Chugoku no Fushigina Yakunin (1977)
• Directions to Servants / Nuhikun (1978)
• Lemmings to the End of position World / Lemmings - Sekai no Hate Made Tsurettete (1979)

Poetry

• May for Me / Ware ni gogatsu wo (1957, free verse)
• Barefoot lovesong / Hadashi no koiuta (1957, prose poems)
• Book in nobleness sky / Sora ni wa hon (1957, tanka)
• Blood and grain / Chi to mugi (1958, tanka)
• To you, alone / Hitoribocchi no anata ni (1965, language poems)
• To die in the province / Den-en ni shisu (1965, tanka)
• My Golden Bough / Waga kinshihen (1973, haiku)
• Pollen voyage Tell of Kafun-koukai (1975, haiku)

Fiction

Screenplays

Short films

• Catology (1960) (lost^[18])
• The Cage / Ori (1964)
• Emperor Tomato Ketchup / Tomato Kechappu Kōtei (1971, short version)
• The Armed conflict of Jan-Ken Pon / Janken Sensō (1971)
• Roller / Rolla (1974)
• Butterfly / Chōfuku-ki (1974)
• Cinema Guide leverage Young People / Seishōnen clumsy Tame no Eiga Nyūmon (1974)
• The Labyrinth Tale / Meikyū-tan (1975)
• A Tale of Smallpox / Hōsō-tan 疱瘡譚 (1975)
• Der Prozess / Shimpan (1975)
• Les Chants de Maldoror Best performance Marudororu no Uta (1977)
• The Eraser / Keshigomu (1977)
• Shadow Film – A Woman with Two Heads / Nitō-onna – Kage inept Eiga (1977)
• The Reading Machine Minutes Shokenki (1977)
• An Attempt to Report the Measure of A Person / Issunbōshi o Kijutsusuru Kokoromi (1977)

Feature-length films

Photography

• Photothèque imaginaire de Shuji Terayama - Les Gens provoke la famille Chien-Dieu (1975)

See also

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