The Spirit of Japanese Art
Noguchi, Yone / Cranmer-Byng, L. / Kapadia, S. A.
Yone (Yonejiro) Noguchi (1875-1947) was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese.He attended Keio University in Tokyo but left before graduating to travel to San Francisco in November 1893 where he joined a newspaper run by Japanese exiles and, after a meeting with American poet Joaquin Miller, decided his true vocation was to become a poet. Miller encouraged Noguchi and intr...