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was the pen name of , a Japanese author.
He was born in Yabu, Hyogo.
In 1947, he wrote a mystery short story and was awarded a prize by the magazine .
He was discovered by Edogawa Rampo and became a novelist.
He wrote many ninja (忍法帖 ''Ninpōchō'' series) and mystery fiction, mystery stories. Many of his works have been adapted for film, TV, manga, and anime.
Futarou Yamada Museum
Permanent display in the Hyogo Net Museum of Literature
Futaro Yamada
at J'Lit Books from Japan
at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project)
The War Generation's Genius - comic about Futaro Yamada's early life
Japanese historical novelists Japanese mystery writers Japanese horror writers Japanese lexicographers Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners 1922 births 2001 deaths Writers from Hyōgo Prefecture Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (General) 20th-century Japanese novelists 20th-century lexicographers {{Japan-writer-stub
was the pen name of , a Japanese author.
He was born in Yabu, Hyogo.
In 1947, he wrote a mystery short story and was awarded a prize by the magazine .
He was discovered by Edogawa Rampo and became a novelist.
He wrote many ninja (忍法帖 ''Ninpōchō'' series) and mystery fiction, mystery stories. Many of his works have been adapted for film, TV, manga, and anime.
Works in English translation
Novels
*''The Kouga Ninja Scrolls'' (original title: 甲賀忍法帖, ''Kōga Ninpōchō''), translation Geoff Sant (Del Rey Books, Del Rey, 2006) *''The Meiji Guillotine Murders'' (original title: 明治断頭台, ''Meiji Dantōdai'', 1979), translation Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin Press, 2023)Short story
*"The Yellow Lodger" (original title: ''Kiiroi Geshukunin''), translation Damian Flanagan (''The Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London'', Peter Owen Publishers, Peter Owen, 2005) – A Sherlock Holmes pastiches, Sherlock Holmes pasticheAwards
*1949, the 2nd Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Detective Story Writers' Club Award *1997, the 45th Kikuchi Kan Prize *2000, the 4th Japan Mystery Award *2004, the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for ''Basilisk (manga), Basilisk'', the manga adaptation of ''The Kouga Ninja Scrolls''Selected works
Ninja stories ("Ninpōchō" series)
*"Shinobi: Heart Under Blade". (January 2007) ''Newtype USA''. Volume 6, Number 1, page 23. - adapted to film in 2005, to manga in 1963 and two times in 2003, and to anime in 2005 (based on one of the 2003 manga). * - adapted to film in 1963, and as a TV series in 1966. * * - adapted to film twice: in 1964 (as ''Kunoichi ninpō'') and in 1991. * - adapted to film twice in 1964 and 1992. * - adapted to film in 1963, 1996, and 2011. * - adapted to film Ninpō-chūshingura, in 1965, 1983 (TV), and 1994. * - adapted to film in 1982 (as ''Ninja Wars'') and to manga in 2004. * * - adapted to film in 1965 and 1968. * - adapted to film in 1998 and to The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls, manga in 2005. * - adapted to film in 1969. * - adapted to film in 1995. * * * (serialized as ''Oboro Ninpōchō'') - adapted to film in 1981, 1996 and 2003, to anime in 1997 and to various manga. * - adapted to film in 1968. * * * - adapted to film in 1993. * * * - adapted to TV in 2018. * * *Other fiction
* * - adapted to manga in 1978. * - adapted to film in 1956. * * - adapted to manga in 2006. * - adapted to TV series in 1972, TV movie in 1983, V-cinema film in 1995, and to manga in 2006. * - adapted to film in 1965. * * - adapted to TV series in 2001. * * * * - adapted to manga in 2000.References
External links
Futarou Yamada Museum
Permanent display in the Hyogo Net Museum of Literature
Futaro Yamada
at J'Lit Books from Japan
at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project)
The War Generation's Genius - comic about Futaro Yamada's early life
Japanese historical novelists Japanese mystery writers Japanese horror writers Japanese lexicographers Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners 1922 births 2001 deaths Writers from Hyōgo Prefecture Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (General) 20th-century Japanese novelists 20th-century lexicographers {{Japan-writer-stub