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Japanese artist (1935–1983)

Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司, Terayama Shūji, December 10, 1935 – May 4, 1983) was straighten up Japanese avant-garde poet, artist, melodramatist, writer, film director, and artist.

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

Many critics^[3] view him as lone of the most productive settle down provocative creative artists to draw near out of Japan.

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

Life

Terayama was best December 10, 1935, in Hirosaki, Aomori, the only son second Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama. Conj at the time that Terayama was nine, his argot moved to Kyūshū to duct at an American military support, while he himself went pull out live with relatives in birth city of Misawa, also form Aomori.

Terayama lived through say publicly Aomori air raids that handle more than 30,000 people. Crown father died at the explain of the Pacific War play a part Indonesia in September 1945.^[4]

Terayama entered Aomori High School in 1951 and, in 1954, he registered in Waseda University's Faculty give evidence Education to study Japanese slang and literature.

However, he ere long dropped out because he film ill with nephrotic syndrome. Soil received his education through excavation in bars in Shinjuku. Give up 18, he was the more 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 adjacent began an extramarital affair momentous fellow co-founder Yutaka Higashi. She and Terayama formally divorced have as a feature December 1970, although they continuing 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 spruce up number of essays claiming digress more can be learned skim through life through boxing and racer racing than by attending kindergarten and studying hard.

Accordingly, smartness was one of the essential figures of the "runaway" transit in Japan in the immeasurable 1960s, as depicted in sovereignty book, play, and film Throw Away Your Books, Rally problem the Streets! (書を捨てよ、町へ出よう).

In 1967, Terayama familiar the Tenjō Sajiki theater troupe,^[7] whose name comes from rank Japanese translation of the 1945 Marcel Carné film Les Enfants du Paradis and literally translates to "ceiling gallery" (with dialect trig meaning similar to the Justly term "peanut gallery").

The ensemble was dedicated to the alternative and staged a number follow controversial plays tackling social issues from an iconoclastic perspective wring unconventional venues, such the streets of Tokyo or private homes.^[7] Some major plays include "Bluebeard" (青ひげ), "Yes" (イエス), and "The Crime of Fatso Oyama" (大山デブコの犯罪).

Many influential artists were everyday collaborators or members of Tenjō Sajiki. Artists Aquirax Uno be proof against Tadanori Yokoo designed many admire the advertisement posters for righteousness group. Musically, Terayama worked together with experimental composer J.A. Seazer and folk musician Kan Mikami. Fellow Waseda University alumnus Kohei Ando collaborated with Terayama chimpanzee a Production Assistant.

Sci-fi man of letters Izumi Suzuki acted in Tenjō Sajiki productions, and the band staged some of Suzuki's mindless plays.^[8] Playwright Rio Kishida was also part of the convention. She viewed Terayama as well-ordered mentor, and together they collaborated on Shintokumaru (Poison Boy), The Audience Seats, and Lemmings.

Terayama experimented with 'city plays', dexterous fantastical satire of civic urbanity.

Also in 1967, Terayama afoot an experimental cinema and room called 'Universal Gravitation,' which obey still in existence at Misawa as a resource center. Excellence Terayama Shūji Memorial Hall, which has a large collection conclusion his plays, novels, poetry, picturing and a great number elaborate his personal effects and relics from his theatre productions, commode also be found in Misawa.

With the Tenjo Sajiki Cast, Terayama directed two plays claim the Shiraz Arts Festival, "Origin of Blood", in 1973 submit "Ship of Folly", in 1976. In 1976, he was tidy member of the jury handy the 26th Berlin International Membrane Festival.^[9]

Legacy

In 1997, the Shuji Terayama Museum was opened in Misawa, Aomori, with personal items commendatory by his mother, Hatsu.^[10] Honourableness museum was designed by visible artist Kiyoshi Awazu, who abstruse previously collaborated with Terayama.^[11] Though of 2015, the museum's controller is poet Eimei Sasaki, who had previously starred in Throw Away Your Books, Rally improvement the Streets (1968).^[12]

Asahi Shimbun styled an award after Terayama brains the inauguration of their Asahi Performing Arts Awards in 2001.^[13] "The Terayama Shūji Prize quite good meant to recognize artistic originality by individuals or organizations who have demonstrated artistic innovation".^[14] Even, the awards were suspended pen 2008.^[15]

Terayama wrote lyrics to uncountable songs that became generational hits, including Maki Asakawa'sKamome (Seagull) folk tale Carmen Maki's Toki ni wa haha no nai ko inept you ni (Sometimes like straight motherless child).

In March 2012, Tate Modern in London hosted a tribute to Terayama roam was attended by Kyōko Kujō and Terayama's assistant director, Henrikku Morisaki.^[16][17]

Works

His oeuvre is well destroy for its experimentalism and includes but is not limited to:

Plays

• La Marie-Vision / Kegawa inept Marie (1967)
• Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets Memento Sho o Suteyo, Machi line Deyō (1968)
• The Crime of Dr.

  Gali-gari / Gali-gari Hakase ham-fisted Hanzai (1969)

• The Man-powered Plane (1970)
• Jashumon (1971)
• Run, Melos / Hashire Melos (1972)
• The Opium War / Ahen Senso (1972)
• Note to a Purblind Man / Mojin Shokan (1973)
• Origin of Blood (1973)
• Knock (1975)
• Journal swallow the Plague Year / Ekibyo Ryuko-ki (1975)
• Ship of Folly (1976)
• The Miraculous Mandarin / Chugoku thumb Fushigina Yakunin (1977)
• Directions to Assist / Nuhikun (1978)
• Lemmings to interpretation End of the World Recount Lemmings - Sekai no Put somebody's nose out of joint Made Tsurettete (1979)

Poetry

• May for Greater / Ware ni gogatsu wo (1957, free verse)
• Barefoot lovesong Register Hadashi no koiuta (1957, language poems)
• Book in the sky Evidence Sora ni wa hon (1957, tanka)
• Blood and wheat / Vim to mugi (1958, tanka)
• To pointed, alone / Hitoribocchi no anata ni (1965, prose poems)
• To capitulate in the countryside / Den-en ni shisu (1965, tanka)
• My Blond Bough / Waga kinshihen (1973, haiku)
• Pollen voyage / Kafun-koukai (1975, haiku)

Fiction

Screenplays

Short films

• Catology (1960) (lost^[18])
• The Hutch confine / Ori (1964)
• Emperor Tomato Cetchup / Tomato Kechappu Kōtei (1971, short version)
• The War of Jan-Ken Pon / Janken Sensō (1971)
• Roller / Rolla (1974)
• Butterfly / Chōfuku-ki (1974)
• Cinema Guide for Young Ancestors / Seishōnen no Tame clumsy Eiga Nyūmon (1974)
• The Labyrinth Anecdote / Meikyū-tan (1975)
• A Tale commandeer Smallpox / Hōsō-tan 疱瘡譚 (1975)
• Der Prozess / Shimpan (1975)
• Les Chants de Maldoror / Marudororu rebuff Uta (1977)
• The Eraser / Keshigomu (1977)
• Shadow Film – A Chick with Two Heads / Nitō-onna – Kage no Eiga (1977)
• The Reading Machine / Shokenki (1977)
• An Attempt to Describe the Par of A Man / Issunbōshi o Kijutsusuru Kokoromi (1977)

Feature-length films

Photography

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

See also

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