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1956年度、日の丸幼稚園に通う。
1957ー60年度、門司市立萩ヶ丘小学校に通い、1961ー62年度は北九州市立[門司市立]大里柳小学校に通う。
1963ー65年度、福岡学芸大学[現・福岡教育大学]附属小倉中学校に学ぶ。
1966年度ー68年度、福岡県立小倉高等学校に学ぶ。
1969年度、明陵学館予備校に通う。
1970年度、美學校細密画教場で立石鐡臣に学ぶ。
1970ー75年度、一橋大学社会学部に学ぶ。
1970ー76年、一橋大学「一橋新聞」部で活動。
1976年、山口哲夫、稲川方人、大西祥一らと野球団ファウルズ[現・クーパースタウン・ファウルズ・ボールクラブ]を創立、主将、監督、代表を経て現在に至る。
1976年4月、共同印刷株式会社に入社、7月に退社。
1978年5月、株式会社河出書房新社編集部に入社、1987年7月に退社。 
1985年9月ー11月、アイオワ大学インターナショナル・ライティング・プログラムに客員詩人として招聘される。
1987年度ー89年度、東京都立大学文学部国文科非常勤講師。
1990年度、多摩美術大学美術学部非常勤講師。
1991年度から、多摩美術大学美術学部芸術学科に助教授として着任、1998年度に教授、2005年度から10年度まで芸術学科長、2006年度から20年度まで芸術人類学研究所員、2020年度で定年退職。
1998年秋から99年春にかけて、ベルリン自由大学東アジア研究所客員教授。
2005年2月から14年4月まで、財団法人子規庵保存会評議員。2014年4月から一般財団法人子規庵保存会理事となる。
2008年度から20年度まで、多摩美術大学評議員。
2008年度から北九州市文化大使。
2016から21年度まで、西日本工業大学客員教授。
2017から20年度まで、多摩美術大学図書館長。
2017年夏から国立フレンズ・シニアに入会。
2021年4月から多摩美術大学名誉教授。

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1956年度 日の丸幼稚園
1957ー60年度 門司市立萩ヶ丘小学校
1961ー62年度 北九州市立[門司市立]大里柳小学校
1963ー65年度 福岡学芸大学[現・福岡教育大学]附属小倉中学校
1966年度ー68年度 福岡県立小倉高等学校
1969年度 明陵学館予備校
1970ー75年度 一橋大学社会学部
1970年度 美學校細密画教場
1970ー76年 一橋大学「一橋新聞」部
1976年ー クーパースタウン・ファウルズ・ボールクラブ[野球団ファウルズ](主将、監督、代表)
1976年4月ー7月 共同印刷株式会社
1978年5月ー1987年7月 株式会社河出書房新社編集部
1985年9月ー11月 アイオワ大学インターナショナル・ライティング・プログラム客員詩人
1987年度ー89年度 東京都立大学文学部国文科非常勤講師
1990年度 多摩美術大学美術学部非常勤講師
1991ー2020年度 多摩美術大学美術学部芸術学科(助教授、教授、芸術学科長、芸術人類学研究所員)
1998年ー99年 ベルリン自由大学東アジア研究所客員教授
2005年2月ー2014年4月 財団法人子規庵保存会評議員
2014年4月ー 一般財団法人子規庵保存会理事
2008ー20年度 多摩美術大学評議員
2008年度ー 北九州市文化大使
2016ー2021年度 西日本工業大学客員教授
2017ー20年度 多摩美術大学図書館長
2017年ー 国立フレンズ・シニア
2021年度ー 多摩美術大学名誉教授

bio-bibliography.en, 2007

Takashi HIRAIDE was born in Moji, Kitakyushu-shi, on the south side of the Kanmon channel, Fukuoka Prefecture, in 1950.
While a student at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, he published The Bride Poems, a series of poems (April 1972), as well as a fundamental criticism of the current state of contemporary poetry (August 1972), in the famous poetry magazine Eureka. Just after graduation, he published his first collection of poems, The Inn (1976), a book which inspired a strong response from the readers of the 1970s, a sequence that began his career as one of the leading poets of Japan’s post-war generation.
In 1978, Hiraide gained employment as an editor at the old literary magazine Bungei at Kawadeshobo-shinsha. During this time, he continued to further develop his work in poetry and poetics. He was later awarded the Education Minister’s Art Encouragement Prize for Freshman for his second book of poems, For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (1982).
Portraits of a Young Osteopath (1984) is his third book of poems, in which he incorporated a new method for introducing descriptions of natural science in poetry.
In 1985, he spent three months at the University of Iowa as a poet in residence for the International Writing Program. In 1987, he quit Kawadeshobo-shinsha and published Green Ray in My House, in a complex style of free verse, prose poem, and novel.
In 1990 he began teaching at Tama Art University, where he is now a professor of Poetics and Art Science as well as a core member of the new Institute for Art Anthropology.
In the past seventeen years, he has published, in addition to contemporary poetry, books of various genres and forms, including a book of ambiguous genre, which borders between poetry and essay (Notes for My Left-hand Diary, 1993; winner of Yomiuri Literary Award), a poetic book of letters addressed to a dead artist (Postcards to Donald Evans, 2001), a serial collection of traditional tanka and diary (One Hundred and Eleven Tankas to Mourn My Father, 2000), a novel of autobiography and surrealism (A Guest Cat, 2001; winner of Kiyama Shohei Literary Award), and several books of essays on art, travel and sports. In particular, Poetics of Baseball (1989) is not merely a book about the sport, but also uses the analogy of baseball to write about poetics itself.
In 1998 and 1999, Hiraide was a visiting scholar at the Berlin Free University, a year-long experience which produced his travelogue, The Berlin Moment (2002), following the traces of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Paul Celan, for which he was awarded The Travel Writing Award.
He has also brought forth two volumes of work by Irako Seihaku (2003), which serve as not only a biography about the reclusive and prominent Japanese poet of the old Meiji-era, but also a critique on major problems of modern Japanese poetry, as well as a unique novel employing a special narration system reliving the unknown diary of the forgotten poet. This work has received the Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize and the Toson Shimazaki Memorial Award from Rekitei.
In addition, he has edited two large volumes of the Complete Works of Irako Seihaku (2003), after extensive research on the writings and life of the poet.
Hiraide sometimes works with book design for small poetry magazines and literary books such as The Complete Works of Irako Seihaku as well as his own Irako Seihaku, which received The Minister of Economy & Industry’s Prize, Book Design Concours in 2004.
He has written many articles of poetry criticism for the Kyodo News from 1985-1986, for the Mainichi Newspaper from 1987-1990, and for the Asahi Newspaper from 2000-2002. He has published four books of poetics, Future of Shipwreck (1982), At the Tip of Attack (1985), Doubt about Light (1992), Multiple-Way Street (2004)
In September of 2005, Hiraide was invited to Sprachsalz, the international literary festival in Hall, south Tirol of Austria, as a “godson” to Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese Nobel Prize-winning novelist. Oe, who was a special guest for the festival, highly praised Hiraide’s writings for providing a new direction for prose within the field of poetry.
On a similar note, William Blake’s Bat (2004) is a book of short essays on his ordinary life about which the novelist  Natsuki Ikezawa wrote, “I would like to evade calling these writings essays or stray notes or short pieces. It’s very beautiful, but readers cannot see where the contrivances for the beauty of these writings are. It’s perhaps concerned in his way of life, at least with his way of living.”
Hiraide is also the author of several books corresponding with outstanding artists, including Donald Evans along with On Kawara and Mitsuo Kano. He gave a lecture at the On Kawara exhibition at Kunstverein in Koeln in September of 1995. The lecture was translated into German and published as a text of On Kawara Erscheinen-Verschewinden (On Kawara Appearance-Disappearance) (Maly Verlag, Koeln, Germany, 1997). Mitsuo Kano has made a printed work called Serpentinata in colour intaglio, inspired by a critical poem by Hiraide. The work comes in its own box, including a print of the poem.
There are three complete books of Hiraide’s work in translation, Postcards to Donald Evans, translated into English by Tomoyuki Iino (Tibor de Nagy Editions, New York, USA, 2003) , Le Chat qui venait du ciel, translated into French by Elisabeth Suetsugu (Editions Philippe Picquier, France 2004), and For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut, translated into English by Sawako Nakayasu (New Directions, New York, U.S.A. 2008) which is a recipient of the 2009 Best Translated Book Awards for poetry. This award is the only prize of its kind to honor the best original works of international literature and poetry published in the U.S. over the past year.
There are other translations of his poems into English, German, French, Russian, Chinese and Korean that have appeared in anthologies and poetry magazines.
Hiraide currently lives in the west suburbs of Tokyo with a cat and his wife, the poet Michiyo Kawano. (English text by Sawako Nakayasu, 2007)

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Takashi Hiraide wurde 1950 in Moji, Präfektur Fukuoka, geboren. Noch als Student an der Hitotsubashi Universität in Tokyo veröffentlichte er den Gedichtband „Bride Poems“, eine Sammlung, mit der er zu einem der führenden Dichter der japanischen Nachkriegsgeneration wurde. Nach dem Abschluss des Studiums arbeitete er als Redakteur beim Tokioter Verlag Kawadeshoboshinsha.
Für sein zweites Buch „For the Fighting Spirit of Walnut“ (1982) erhielt er den Preis des Bildungsministers für junge Schriftsteller.
1985 weilte er drei Monate lang als „Writer in residence“ im Rahmen des dortigen „International Writing Programs“ an der Universität von Iowa (USA).
!987 beendete er seine Tätigkeit am Kawadeshoboshinsha.-Verlag und begann an der Tama – Kunsthochschule zu unterrichten, wo er heute den Lehrstuhl für Poetik inne hat.
In den letzten fünfzehn Jahren hat er neben Gedichten auch andere Texte veröffentlicht, einschließlich Bücher, die man als „poetische Prosa“ klassifizieren könnte (Notes for my Left–hand Diary, 1993 – ausgezeichnet mit dem Yomiuri Literaturpreis); eine Sammlung von Tankas (One Hundred and Eleven Tankas to Mourn My Father, 2000); einen Roman (Our Guest Was a Cat, 2001 – ausgezeichnet mit dem Kiyama-Shohei-Preis);
eine Serie von Briefen (Postcard to Donald Evans, 2001); sowie einige Bände Essays.
1998 und 1999 war er Gastprofessor an der Freien Universität Berlin, eine Zeit, die die Reiseerzählung „Moments in Berlin“ (2002) hervorbrachte. Für diese Erzählung erhielt er den Preis für Reisebeschreibungen.
Herr Hiraide lebt und arbeitet in Tokyo.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Takashi Hiraide (1950-) is a Japanese poet, critic and book designer.
As one of the leading poets of Japan’s post-war generation he has published books of various genres and forms from poetry to prose and from poetics of sports to criticism on arts, receiving numerous prizes.
His first novel The Guest Cat, became a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller in 2014. It has been translated into 15 languages and will be translated into more than 24 languages. This is also a book of hybrid literary form consisting of Japanese I-novel style & Surrealistic documentary.
Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, highly praised Hiraide’s writings for providing a new direction for prose within the field of poetry.
Since 2010 he has designed, produced and published a series of postal art books, via wwalnuts, an alternative book project against the established system of Japan’s literary society of today.

BIOGRAPHY 1950-1959

1950年11月21日、福岡県門司市御所町(現・北九州市門司区大里戸ノ上)の祖父母の家で生れる。父恍一は国鉄職員、母和子、姉順子。
1952年3月、門司市大里の国鉄観峽寮から新原町国鉄官舎へ転居。
1954年11月、八幡市黒崎熊手町の借家へ転居。
1955年11月、門司市永黒市営アパートへ転居。
1956年4月、日の丸幼稚園入園。
1957年4月、門司市立萩ヶ丘小学校入学。担任の原口珠枝先生を慕う。
1959年12月、門司市帯田町柳公団住宅へ転居。