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Mitsuyo Kakuta
Mitsuyo Kakuta (, ''Kakuta Mitsuyo'', born 8 March 1967) is a Japanese author born in Yokohama.IFORetrieved 23 May 2016/ref> She has been engaged in translating into modern Japanese the 11th-century proto-novel ''The Tale of Genji'' by Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部). Career Mitsuyo Kakuta made her debut while still a student at Waseda University's Faculty of Literature, with ''Kōfuku na yūgi'' (A Blissful Pastime). It won her the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1990. After producing two well-received novels in 2002, ''Ekonomikaru paresu'' (Economical Palace) and ''Kūchū teien'' (Hanging Garden), she went on to win the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Naoki Prize for ''Woman on the Other Shore'' in 2004. ''Hanging Garden'' was adapted into a film by Toshiaki Toyoda in 2005. '' The Eighth Day'', translated into English in 2010, received the 2007 Chūō Kōron Literary Prize and has been made into a television drama series and a film. Both her 2012 books – her novel ''Kami n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuichi Yoshida
is a Japanese novelist. Biography Shūichi Yoshida was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hosei University. He won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers in 1997 for his story "Saigo no Musuko", and the Akutagawa Prize in 2002 (the fifth time he'd been nominated for the prize) for "Park Life". In 2002 he also won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for ''Parade'', and for winning both literary and popular prizes Yoshida was seen as a crossover writer, like Amy Yamada or Masahiko Shimada. In 2003 he wrote lyrics for the song "Great Escape" on Tomoyasu Hotei's album, 'Doberman'. His 2007 novel, ''Akunin'', won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, and was adapted into an award-winning 2010 film by Lee Sang-il. Another novel, Taiyo wa Ugokanai has been made into a 2020 film. Works in English translation * ''Villain'' (original title: Akunin), trans. Philip Gabriel (London: Pantheon, 2010) * ''Parade'' (original title: Parēdo), trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Births
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle (Vietnam), Iron Triangle. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus''. * January 23 ** In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. ** Milton Keynes in England is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waseda University Alumni
Waseda may refer to: * Waseda University Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ... * Waseda-SAT2 * 9350 Waseda * Waseda El Dorado People with the surname *, Japanese swimmer See also * Waseda Station (other) {{disambiguation, surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Women Novelists
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Circle Authors
Red Circle Authors is a British publishing house based in London that specialises in Japanese fiction. Origins Red Circle Authors was set up in 2016, by Richard Nathan and Koji Chikatani, to showcase Japan's best creative writing. The Gutai group was the initial inspiration behind Red Circle Authors. Members of the Red Circle Authors group include: Kazufumi Shiraishi, , Fuminori Nakamura, , Mitsuyo Kakuta, Takuji Ichikawa, Soji Shimada and Roger Pulvers. Currently, only a limited number of literary works by Red Circle's curated circle of authors are available outside Japan in translation. Despite this, many of Red Circle's authors have won literary awards in Japan including, for example, the Naoki Prize (Mitsuyo Kakuta 2005, Kazufumi Shiraishi in 2010) and the Akutagawa Prize ( Fuminori Nakamura in 2005); and have had their works adapted for film and television in Japan. Some of the group's authors already have well-established reputations in Asia (in China, Taiwan, Korea, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaori Ekuni
Kaori Ekuni (江國 香織 ''Ekuni Kaori'', born 21 March 1964) is a Japanese author. She was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. Her father is Japanese haiku poet and essayist, Shigeru Ekuni. Works In Japan, she was dubbed the female Murakami. Her numerous works of fiction have been translated into several languages and published in many countries, including her novel ''Twinkle Twinkle'', which has been translated into English. From 2004 to 2008 her books were continuously in Korea's top 50 bestsellers list. ''Twinkle Twinkle'' was a bestseller in 1991. Awards *Murasaki Shikibu Prize, 1992, '' Kirakira Hikaru '' *Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, 2001, ''It's not safe or suitable to swim'' *Naoki Prize, 2004 ''Gokyu suru Junbi wa Dekiteita'' See also *Japanese Literature Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yōko Ogawa
is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. '' The Memory Police'' was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020. Some of her most well known works include '' The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Diving Pool'' and ''Hotel Iris''. Background and education Ogawa was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture. Growing up in a family that followed the Konkōkyō religion, she was influenced by her upbringing in a household with deep religious and educational values. She graduated with a degree in literature from Waseda University, Tokyo. When she married her husband, a steel company engineer, she quit her job as a medical university secretary and wrote while her husband was at work. Initially, she wrote only as a hobby, and her husband didn't realise she was a writer until her debut no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takami Itō
is a Japanese author who won an Akutagawa Prize in 2006. Biography Itō was born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As a middle-school student, he was a classmate of Ken Hirai. He later graduated from Waseda University. Prizes * Bungei Prize (1995) * Shōgakukan Children's Publications Culture Prize (2000) * Jōji Hirata Literature Prize * Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History Th ... (2006) for the novel "八月の路上に捨てる" (''Hachigatsu no rojō ni suteru'' - literally means "Desert on the August road") References External links J'Lit , Authors : Takami Ito , Books from Japan {{DEFAULTSORT:Ito, Takami 1971 births 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Living people Akutagawa Prize winners Writers from Kobe W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of Genji
is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century. It is one of history's first novels, the first by a woman to have won global recognition, and in Japan today has a stature like that of Shakespeare in England. The work is a depiction of the lifestyles of high courtiers during the Heian period. It is written mostly in Japanese phonetic script (''hiragana''), in a vernacular style associated with women's writing of the time (not the same as "vernacular Japanese", which only appeared in late 19th century), not in Chinese characters (''kanji'') used for more prestigious literature, and its archaic language and poetic style require specialised study. The original manuscript no longer exists but there are more than 300 later manuscript copies of varying reliability. It was made in "Folded leaflet#Concertina fold, concertina" or style: several sheets of paper p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eighth Day (Japanese Novel)
''The Eighth Day'' (or ''Yokame no semi'', ''八日目の蟬'' in kanji) is a 2007 Japanese language novel by Japanese author Mitsuyo Kakuta Mitsuyo Kakuta (, ''Kakuta Mitsuyo'', born 8 March 1967) is a Japanese author born in Yokohama.IFORetrieved 23 May 2016/ref> She has been engaged in translating into modern Japanese the 11th-century proto-novel ''The Tale of Genji'' by Murasaki Shi .... It was translated into English by Margaret Mitsutani in 2010. The book is known for its characterization of women especially. It was later adapted into a TV drama, and then as a film in 2011. The author received the 2007 Chūō Kōron Literary Prize (''中央公論文芸賞'') for the novel. Synopsis A work with theme of ''motherhood''. Consists of two chapters in total (3 chapters including the prologue Chapter 0) depicting the three-and-a-half-year escape story of Nonomiya Kiwako, a woman who kidnapped the baby of her adulterous partner, and the conflict of Erina Akiyama, the baby who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
