Yone Noguchi

Noguchi, Yone (1875–1947), Japanese‐born poet, came to the U.S. as a young man and became associated with Les Jeunes of San Francisco and Joaquin Miller. Under their encouragement he wrote some odd, personal verse in seemingly uncertain English, Seen and Unseen; or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail (1897), which was praised by some for bohemian originality but was satirized by Norris in The Octopus and scorned by reviewers. From the Eastern Sea (1903) contains more conventional lyrics nostalgically recalling Japan from England, to which he moved. He returned home and was for a long time a professor at the University of Tokyo. Isamu Noguchi, the sculptor, is his son.

Yone Noguchi (Yonejiro Noguchi) , Japanese poet and critic of Japanese art and poetry. Noguchi traveled and lectured in the United States and England, and later taught English literature at Keio Univ. in Tokyo. Writing in English as well as Japanese, he helped to stimulated Western interest in many Japanese artists. His Selected Poems, written in English, appeared in 1921. Noguchi's other works include Japan and America (1921) and Harunobu (1940).