UEDA BIN

Literary critic, scholar, translator, and poet, Ueda Bin was born in Tsukiji, Tokyo, and graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. A student of languages, he was praised as “one in a million” by Lafcadio Hearn. He traveled to Europe in 1908, and his major work, Kaichoon (The Sound of the Tide, 1905), is a collection of translations from Western poets. He died of renal failure at age 41.

See also FREE VERSE; MYOJO; SYMBOLISM; YOSHII ISAMU.