Tatsuo Hori

was a Japanese translator and writer of poetry, short stories and novels.

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, Ivan Turgenev, Gerhart Hauptmann and Arthur Schnitzler, the French symbolists, and the philosophical writings of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.

While still a student, he contributed translations of modern French poets and also his own writings to the literary journal Roba, He regarded himself as a disciple of Akutagawa, but also showed influences of Raymond Radiguet and Marcel Proust, His later works reflect a move towards modernism. Both ill with tuberculosis, the couple moved to a sanatorium in Nagano Prefecture,

Hori is buried at Tama Reien cemetery in Tokyo. His widow Tae (1913–2010) served as the museum's honorary director and published many essays on her husband.

Selected works

1930: 1933–34: 1936–38: 1937: 1941: 1941: 1942:

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