Kambayashi Akatsuki

Kambayashi Akatsuki

Kambayashi Akatsuki ( Japanese 上林 暁 , civil: Tokuhiro Iwaki ( 徳 廣 巌 城 , also simplified : 徳 広 巌 城 ); * October 6, 1902 in Tanokuchi, Hata-gun (today: Kuroshio ), Kōchi Prefecture ; † August 28, 1980 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

At the end of his school days in 1922 Akatsuki Kambayashi moved to Kumamoto in the Kambayashi district, hence his pseudonym. He studied English literature at Tokyo University until 1927 . Then he began to work at Kaizō ( 改造 ). Kamabayashi published more than 200 stories and short stories by the end of his life. Donald Keene divides Kambayashi's work into 3 main themes: Stories whose plot takes place in his home town of Shikoku , stories which deal with his wife's illness ( e.g. Sei yohane byōin nite , 1946 聖 ヨ ハ ネ 病院 に て ) and stories, in which his younger sister is the focus.

Kambayashi received the Yomiuri Prize for Shiroi yakatabune in 1964 , in 1969 he became a member of the Art Academy of Japan ( 日本 芸 術 院 , Nihon Geijutsuin ) and in 1974 he received the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize .

Works

• 1946 Sei yohane byōin nite　( 聖 ヨ ハ ネ 病院 に て )
• 1957 Haru no saka ( 春 の 坂 )
• 1963 Shiroi yakatabune ( 白 い 屋 形 船 )
• 1973 Buronzu no michi ( ブ ロ ン ズ の 首 )

Web links

• Biographical summary (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ わ が 町 の ユ ニ ー ク な 施 設 ・ 取 り 組 み . (No longer available online.) Kuroshio Congregation, archived from original on March 19, 2011 ; Retrieved October 10, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Donald Keene: Dawn to the West: Japanese literature of the modern era, fiction , Volume 1, Columbia University Press, 1998, pages 541-555. ISBN 978-0-23111434-9 .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kambayashi is the family name, Akatsuki the first name.