Kazusuke Ogawa (小川和佑, Ogawa Kazusuke, 29 April 1930 – 20 September 2014) was a Japanese literary critic.
Ogawa was born in Tokyo, and graduated from Meiji University's Literature Department in 1951. [1] Having Shin'ichirō Nakamura as his mentor, he began writing poetry and literary criticism, and after a stint as a high school teacher in Tochigi Prefecture, he became an assistant professor at Showa Women's University. After retiring, he also worked as a lecturer at his alma mater and at Tokyo Denki University. [2] After 1990 many of his writings centered on cherry blossoms.
He died on 20 September 2014 of stomach cancer. [3]
Kazusuke Ogawa (小川和佑, Ogawa Kazusuke, 29 April 1930 – 20 September 2014) was a Japanese literary critic.
Ogawa was born in Tokyo, and graduated from Meiji University's Literature Department in 1951. [1] Having Shin'ichirō Nakamura as his mentor, he began writing poetry and literary criticism, and after a stint as a high school teacher in Tochigi Prefecture, he became an assistant professor at Showa Women's University. After retiring, he also worked as a lecturer at his alma mater and at Tokyo Denki University. [2] After 1990 many of his writings centered on cherry blossoms.
He died on 20 September 2014 of stomach cancer. [3]