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Nanao Sakaki (1923 – December 22, 2008)〔("Remembering Pioneers Alan Lew and Nanao Sakaki" ) web page at Shambhala Sunspace website, retrieved January 29, 2009〕 was a Japanese poet, author of ''Bellyfulls'' and leading personality of ''The Tribe''. He was born to a large family in Kagoshima Prefecture,〔Halper 1991, pg. 95〕 and raised by parents who ran an indigo dye-house. ==Personal life== After completing compulsory education at age twelve, he worked as an office boy in Kagoshima. He was a draftee radar specialist stationed in Kyushu in the military, and surreptitiously read Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kropotkin, Marx, and Engels as time allowed. After the war, he went to Tokyo, living in an underpass near Ueno Station, working for a short time at a foundry in Amagasaki, then as a turner, and then for some two and a half years running errands for Sanehiko Yamamoto's office.〔Halper 1991, pp. 95-6〕 Around 1952-3 he moved to the San'ya district and lived off the generosity of his neighbors, spending all his time studying English and reading. After two years there, he moved to Shinjuku, became interested in primitive art, and collaborated with a wood sculptor. They visited forests all over Japan for some three years. During this time, Sakaki began to write poems expressing a deep relationship with the forests. This led to exhibitions combining poetry and sculpture in Kagoshima in 1955 and in Ikebukuro in 1959.〔Halper 1991, pp. 96-7〕 Sakaki and the sculptor then went separate ways, Sakaki returning to Shinkuju and becoming friends with Neale Hunter. The two of them made a practice of never sleeping in the same place twice. They co-translated some of his poems into English and published them in Tokyo 1961 as the book ''Bellyfulls''.〔Halper 1991, pp. 97-8〕 Gary Snyder sought out Sakaki after Hunter introduced him to this book in India.〔 Snyder and Sakaki shared many interests, including linguistics, Bushman ethnology, Sanskrit, Japanese archeology, Marx, Jung, Nagarjuna, and revolution.〔Snyder, preface in Sakaki 1966, quoted in Halper 1991, pg. 98〕 It was also around this time that Sakaki helped create and lead "The Tribe", and led these friends to Suwanosejima to build the Banyan Ashram.〔Halper 1991, pp. 98-103〕 ''Bellyfulls'' was reprinted in the US in 1966, and starting in 1969, Sakaki made several trips to the United States, exploring the wilderness, writing, and reading poetry.〔Halper 1991, pg. 104〕 He spent about ten years in the United States, primarily in San Francisco and Taos, New Mexico, but also walking widely. Sakaki was married twice and had two sons in Hokkaido, Yuki and Mizu Araki; another in New Mexico, Issa Sakaki Merrill; and a daughter, Maggie Tai Sakaki Tucker. At the time of his death in 2008, he was living with friends in the mountains of Nagano prefecture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RIP Nanao Sakaki )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nanao Sakaki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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