Tadaki Nishiyama (; 9 February 1950 – 24 November 2023), better known under the

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s Shizuka Ijūin () and Ayumi Date (), was a Japanese writer and lyricist.

Life and career

Born in

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, Ijūin graduated in letters from

Rikkyo University , also known as Saint Paul's University, is a private university, in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan. Rikkyo is one of the five MARCH (Japanese universities), MARCH universities, the group of private universities in the Kantō region, Kanto region, toge ...

and then worked several years as commercial director for an advertising agency. In 1981 he made his literary debut with the novel ''Satsuki'', and in 1992 he won the

Naoki Prize The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for ...

for the collection of short stories ''Ukezuki''. Among his best known works, the autobiographical novel trilogy ''Kaikyo'' and the best-selling series of essays ''Otona no Ryugi'', which sold over 2 million copies. He was also active as a lyricist, penning several hits for

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Personal life and death

Ijūin was married to

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from 1984 to 1985, when she died of leukemia, and to actress from 1992 until his death. After surviving a

subarachnoid haemorrhage Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is bleeding into the subarachnoid space—the area between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater surrounding the brain. Symptoms may include a severe headache of rapid onset, vomiting, decreased level of c ...

in 2020, Ijūin died of

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cancer on 24 November 2023, at the age of 73.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ijuin, Shizuka 1950 births 2023 deaths People from Yamaguchi Prefecture Japanese lyricists Japanese novelists Japanese short story writers Japanese essayists Rikkyo University alumni Naoki Prize winners Deaths from cancer in Japan