Hashida Sugako

Hashida Sugako

Hashida Sugako ( Japanese 橋 田 寿 賀子 ; married Iwasaki Sugako ; born May 10, 1925 in Keijō , Chōsen Province , then the Japanese Empire , now South Korea ) is a Japanese television author and essayist.

Life

Hashida was born in Keijō and moved to the main Japanese islands with her mother as a child. She studied Japanese literature with Kikuchi Kan at the Women's University in Tokyo . After the college closed during the Pacific War , she worked for the Imperial Japanese Navy .

After the end of this war, she continued her studies at Waseda University and then worked in the script department of the Shōchiku film company. In the course of the studio closings, she lost her job in 1960 and lived for the next five years as a freelance playwright and writer of short stories for women's magazines.

In 1965 she married Iwasaki Hiroshi , who was a producer at TBS . There, in 1973, her first successful television drama Ai to Shi o Mitsumete was broadcast. This was followed by NHK films such as Tonari no Shibafu (1976-77), which ran in translation under the title The Grass Is Greener on the Other Side on US cable television in the 1980s , Fūfu (1979) and the sensational Japanese success Oshin . TBS ran the series Michi (1980), Onnatachi no Chuushingura (1981) and Dakazoku (1983). In addition to several television awards, Hashida received the Kikuchi Kan Prize in 1984 . In 2015 she was recognized by the Japanese state as a person with special cultural merits .

source

• Chieko Irie Mulhern: "Japanese women writers: a bio-critical sourcebook" , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 9780313254864 , pp. 95-102

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