| Kōichi Iijima | |
| Birth Date: | 25 February 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Okayama City |
| Death Place: | Tokyo |
| Occupation: | writer, university professor |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Alma Mater: | Tokyo University |
| Period: | 1953-2013 |
| Movement: | surrealism, modernism[1] |
| Children: | Yōichi Iijima |
was a Japanese poet, novelist, and translator. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy.
Born in Okayama City, Iijima graduated from the French Literature Department of Tokyo University.[2] While in university he established together with, among others, Isamu Kurita the magazine Cahier. In 1956, he and Makoto Ōoka were among the founders of the Surrealism Research Society.[3]
In 1953, he published his first collection of poems, Tanin no sora ("Another person's sky"). In 2008, he was elected a member of the Japan Art Academy. He also worked as a professor at Meiji University and Kokugakuin University. He translated or wrote about Henri Barbusse, Antonin Artaud, Brassaï, Joan Miró i Ferrà, Henry Miller, Marcel Aymé, Guillaume Apollinaire, etc.
He died on October 14, 2013, at a Tokyo hospital of malabsorption syndrome.[4]
He is the father of architecture critic Yōichi Iijima.