Author · Japan · 1875–1947
Yone Noguchi
Lyric bridges between Japan and the West; delicate images with bold experiment.
Yonejirō Noguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is known in the West as Yone Noguchi. He was the father of noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
Genres
Literary fiction
Bridges of lyric in 2026
Yone Noguchi writes wind, city, and self across languages. Texture is light, feeling is frank, and form keeps opening doors. Read him today to explore cross cultural modernism, to rest the mind, and to practice a gentle intensity that survives noise.
