Gonnoske Komai

Gonnoské Komai
Born	1874 Japan
Died	1956 (aged 81–82) Dartford, Kent
Occupations	Poet artist translator
Children	Gloria Fuji-Ko

Gonnoské Komai (Japanese: 駒井権之助, romanized: Komai Gonnosuke; 1874^[1] – 1956^[2]) was a Japanese poet, artist, and war correspondent,^[3] who became well-known in England.^[4][5] Once in Britain, he wrote and lectured regularly on Japanese subjects, with one contemporary describing Komai as being 'unrivalled' among 'modern interpreters of Japan.'^[6] Komai was noted for continuing to wear his native dress throughout his life in England.^[7][8]

Gonnoské Komai was born in Japan in 1874.^[9][1] He married Sheffield-born Norah Howard Morgan in Willesden in 1921, and the couple had two daughters: Gloria Mari-Ko Komai (born 1922) and Felicia (Fuji-Ko, born 1926).^[10][11] In London, Komai lived at 73 Harcourt Terrace, Kensington.^[12]

Komai worked as correspondent for The Daily Telegraph during the Russo-Japanese War, and for The Times during World War I.^[13] He was present at the First Conference of PEN in London in 1923.^[14]

Komai was a friend of artist Augustus John, who painted him.^[15] He was active in the literary and cultural scene of London,^[16] with H. G. Wells and John Galsworthy being godfathers to his daughters.

Gonnoské Komai died in 1956 in Dartford, Kent.^[2]

• Dreams from China and Japan: being transfusions from the Japanese and Chinese languages (1918)
• Fuji from Hampstead Heath (1925)
• Fuji-Yama and other poems (1934)
• America and Japan (19--)
• Japan Yesterday and Today (1936)
• Exhibition of water-colours on silk by leading contemporary Japanese artists (1937)

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