Genyoshi Kadokawa: Businessman (Literary Scholar), Haiku Poet, Founder of Kadokawa Shoten, Established the Chōkotsu Chōkū Award

◇ Genyoshi Kadokawa
Businessman (National Literature Scholar), Haiku Poet
Founder of Kadokawa Shoten, established the Jakotsu Prize and Chōkū Prize
Haiku name: Genyoshi, Suiyō
Born in Higashimizuhashi Town, Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture (now Toyama City)
1930: Entered Toyama Prefectural Jinzū Junior High School (now Toyama Prefectural Toyama Chūbu High School)
1935: Entered Kokugakuin University Preparatory Course, met Kunio Yanagida and Shinobu Origuchi.
1941: Graduated early due to the temporary conscription system.
1942: Professor at Tōa Gakuen, Researcher at the Japan Culture Association (gained connections that would later form Kadokawa Shoten's writing staff).
Became a teacher at Jōhoku Junior High School, and after two periods of military service, ended the war in Toyama.
November 1945: Established Kadokawa Shoten in Kotake-chō, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo (now Nerima Ward). After establishing Kadokawa Shoten,
1947: Became a core member of Koshi (later renamed Kisetsu) by Ume no Mon Kanao.
December 1958: Launched and presided over Kawa.
February 1948 - August 1949: Published the magazine Hyōgen.
1949: Launched Kadokawa Bunko.
The publication format of paperback books achieved surprisingly successful results.
1952: Launched the comprehensive haiku magazine Haiku.
1954: Launched the comprehensive tanka magazine Tanka.
1955: Established the Kadokawa Haiku Prize and Kadokawa Tanka Prize, new talent awards for both haiku and tanka magazines.
1961: Participated in the establishment of the Haiku Poets Association.
1975: Received the Yomiuri Literature Prize for his fifth collection of haiku, Saigyō no Hi.
1967: Established the Jakotsu Prize and Chōkū Prize.
1972: Received the 20th Japan Essayists' Club Prize for Kiji no Koe.
In his later years, he dedicated himself to the prosperity of the haiku and tanka world, including the construction of the Haiku Literature Museum.
1961: The Origin of Narrative Literature at Hiroshi (Kokugakuin University)
1975: The year before his death, he lectured at Kokugakuin University and Keio University Graduate School until his death.
Born Taishō 6 - Died Shōwa 50, age 58.
◇ Kekkai no mi ni aoshigure rachi mo naya Genyoshi

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