was a Japanese literary critic.
Ogawa was born in Tokyo, and graduated from Meiji University's Literature Department in 1951. Having Shin'ichirō 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.
Works (selection) "Shiki" to sono shijin, 1970 Miyoshi Tatsuji kenkyū, 1970 Shōwa jojōshi kenkyū : Tachihara Michizō kōshō to giron, 1971 Miyoshi Tatsuji no sekai, 1972 Itō Shizuo ron, 1973 Shōwa bungaku ron kō, 1975 Takahashi Kazumi kenkyū, 1976 Tachihara Michizō kenkyū, 1977 Gendaishi dochaku to genshitsu, 1976 Ritoru magajin hakkutsu : bungakushi no suiheisen, 1976 Shōwa bungaku no ichisokumen : shiteki kyōensha no bungaku, 1977 Tachihara Michizō ai no tegami : bungaku arubamu, 1978 Karuizawa : bundan shiryō, 1980 Itō Shizuo : kokō no jojō shijin, 1980 Bunmei kaika no shi, 1980 Bungakuhi no aru fūkei : shi no kokoro shi no fūdo, 1983 Hori Tatsuo sono ai to shi, 1984 Mishima Yukio : han "Nihon rōmanha" ron, 1985 Hori Tatsuo : sakka no kyōgai, 1986 Sakura no bungakushi, 1991 Shōka, sanbika, gunka no shigen, 2005 Sakura to Nihon bunka : seimeibi kara sange no hana e, 2007
References
External links "Prof. Ogawa's Room"