page_title: Yone Noguchi
section_title: Lectures abroad
hierarchical_section_title: Yone Noguchi / Biography / Lectures abroad
caption_attribution_description: English: Yoné Noguchi in More Men of Mark (New York, 1922) by Alvin Langdon Coburn (British, born America, 1882 - 1966); New York, United States; negative December 14, 1913; print 1922; Collotype; 18.4 × 14.4 cm (7 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.); 84.XO.1354.9 digitized by the J. Paul Getty Museum
context_page_description: Yonejirō Noguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is known in the west as Yone Noguchi. He was the father of noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
context_section_description: In 1913, he made his second trip to Britain (via Marseille and Paris) to lecture on Japanese poetry at Magdalen College, Oxford at the invitation of poet laureate, Robert Bridges, also giving lectures to the Japan Society of London and reading at the Poetry Bookshop. While in London, he met with George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Laurence Binyon, Arthur Symons, Sarojini Naidu, and numerous other noted literary figures, and also investigated the latest trends in British modern art, spending time with Roger Fry, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Joseph Pennell, Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. In April the following year, while in Paris, he also met with Tōson Shimazaki who happened to be travelling in Europe at the time. Noguchi traveled back to Japan via Berlin and Moscow using the Trans-Siberian Railway. 
  A collection of literary essays, Through the Torii had appeared at the time of Noguchi's arrival in Britain, and while there, he arranged the publication of The Spirit of Japanese Poetry, The Spirit of Japanese Art and The Story of Yone Noguchi. 
  In 1919–20, Noguchi made a transcontinental lecture tour of America under the aegis of the James B. Pond Lyceum Bureau, speaking at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago and the University of Utah, and the University of Toronto, among other places.
caption: Noguchi photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913
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