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Japanese writer (1904–1953)

Tatsuo Hori (堀辰雄, Hori Tatsuo, 28 December 1904 – 28 May 1953) was a Japanese translator and writer of poetry, short stories and novels.^[1]

Early life

Born in Tokyo, Hori studied Japanese literature at Tokyo Imperial University under Saisei Murō and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

In addition to Japanese writers of the time, he read the works of Rainer Maria Rilke,^[2]Ivan Turgenev, Gerhart Hauptmann and Arthur Schnitzler, the French symbolists, and the philosophical writings of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.^[3][4]

While still a student, he contributed translations of modern French poets and also his own writings to the literary journal Roba,^[1] published and edited by critic Tsurujirō Kubokawa.^[5] He regarded himself as a disciple of Akutagawa, but also showed influences of Raymond Radiguet and Marcel Proust,^[1] and the Proletarian Literature Movement.^[