Kazusuke Ogawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kazusuke Ogawa

Japanese teacher and literary critic (1930-2014)

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1930

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 20-Sep-2014

Profession: teacher, literary critic

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Kazusuke Ogawa (????, 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.
Having Shin'ichiro 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.
After 1990 many of his writings centered on cherry blossoms. He died on 20 September 2014 of stomach cancer.