Literary Career
In 1939, together with Nakamura Mitsuo (中村 光夫?) and Yamamoto Kenkichi (山本 健吉?), Yoshida co-founded the literary magazine Hihyō (批評?) (literally, "Critique(s)"), which published critiques of modern French and British authors. Post-war decades saw Yoshida's prolific output, with works ranging from translations of Charles Baudelaire and English literature including William Shakespeare to fiction, with short stories and novels. He also published lighter works such as Saishō Onzōshi Hinkyusu (宰相御曹司貧窮す, Prime Minister's Eldest Son Suffers Dire Poverty?), which was titled by its publisher against his wishes, so he also published a private edition of the same work under the title Detarameron (出鱈目論, On Hogwash?).
Yoshida lived in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture between 1946 and 1953 and maintained a long correspondence with various of the Kamakura literati, including Ishikawa Jun (石川 淳?), Ōoka Shōhei (大岡 昇平?), Kobayashi Hideo (小林 秀雄?), Mishima Yukio (三島 由紀夫?), and Nakamura Mitsuo (中村 光夫?). He died in 1977 at the age of 65; his grave is located at the Kuboyama Reien cemetery in Yokohama.
Legend had it that, due to his Cantabrigian education, albeit brief, Yoshida conceived in English more than in his native Japanese.
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