What was the residence of José Juan Tablada from 1911 to 1912?
José Juan Tablada José Juan de Aguilar Acuña Tablada ( April 3 , 1871 – August 2 , 1945 ) was a Mexican poet , art critic and , for a brief period , diplomat . A pioneer of oriental studies , and champion of Mexican art , he spent a good portion of his life living abroad . As a poet , his work spans from the fin-de-siècle style to avant-garde experimentalism . He was an influential early writer of Spanish-language haiku . Career . Tablada was born in Mexico City and studied at Chapultepec Castle . He at first worked for the national railways . In 1890 , aged 19 , he began contributing to magazines and newspapers as a journalist , essayist and poet . In 1894 his rhythmic and intricate poem Onix brought him renown . Florilegio , his first collection of poetry , was published in 1899 and established him as one of Mexicos pioneer modernists , although at that period such writing approximated the style of the French decadent movement . From early on , he became interested in Japanese aesthetics and travelled to Japan for some months in 1900 . This left its influence on his work and culminated in a book on the artist Hiroshige ( 1914 ) and a general work , En el país del sol ( In the land of the sun , 1919 ) . The latter was made up of a selection of his articles on Japanese subjects over the years , in particular those arising from his 1900 visit . In addition he had brought back a large collection of ukiyo-e prints that are now in the National Library of Mexico . During the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution , Tablada spent time in Paris and then in New York City until he was appointed a cultural secretary in the Foreign Service in 1918 , serving in Bogotá , Caracas , and Quito . Unable to adapt to the altitude of the last , he resigned and thereafter spent much of his time in New York until 1935 . There he ran a bookshop and founded the magazine Mexican Art and Life . At this period he was championing Mexican art , being among the first to draw attention to the art of the Pre-Columbian period , but also supporting the modernist painters José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera . After his return to Mexico , he published a partial autobiography , La feria de la vida ( 1937 ) , and was elected a member of the Mexican Literary Academy in 1941 . He was appointed Vice-Consul for New York in 1945 but died soon after his arrival there . Later his remains were repatriated and buried in the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons on November 5 , 1946 . Poetry . Tablada is recognized as among the originators of modern Mexican poetry and is credited with the introduction of haiku to his country . His collection Un dia ( 1919 ) contains 38 ‘synthetic poems’ and has been described as “the first book of original haiku written by a poet outside Japan” . It was followed by a collection of calligrams , Li-Po y otros poemas ( 1920 ) , and in 1922 by El jarro de flores , containing a further 68 haiku . His haiku are distinguished by their aesthetic quality , as for example in and by their humour : In 1921 his friend the composer Edgard Varèse incorporated an earlier piece by Tablada , La Cruz del Sur , in his Offrandes ( 1921 ) , and two years later dedicated his Hyperprism to the poet . After Tabladas death , Luis Sandi set ten of his haiku for voice and piano ( Diez hai-kais para canto y piano , 1947 ) . Bibliography . Poetry . - El florilegio , 1899 - La epopeya nacional , Porfirio Díaz , 1909 - Hiroshigué : el pinto de la nieve , de la lluvia , de la noche y de la luna , 1914 - Al sol y bajo la luna , 1918 - Un día.. . Poemas Sintéticos , 1919 - Li-Po y otros poemas , 1920 - Retablo de memoria de Ramón López Velarde , 1921 - El jarro de flores , 1922 - Intersecciones , 1924 - La feria : poemas mexicanos , 1928 - Del humorismo a la carcajada , 1944 Essays . - La defensa social : historia de la campaña de la División del Norte , 1913 . - Historia del arte en México , 1927 - Hongos mexicanos comestibles : micología económica , 1983 References . Most details are taken from the biography of the poet at the Free University of Mexico , Faculty of Philosophy and Literature External links . - AHA POET OF THE MONTH : José Juan Tablada ( 1871 – 1945 )