Kinoshita Junji

Kinoshita Junji ( Japanese 木 下 順 二 ; born August 2, 1914 in Tokyo ; † October 30, 2006 ibid) was a Japanese playwright and translator.

Kinoshita studied English literature with a focus on the Elizabethan era at the University of Tokyo . He wrote his first drama ( Fūrō ) after graduating in 1936, but it was not published until eleven years later. After the war, he taught at Meiji University .

His most successful drama was Yūzuru ( 夕 鶴 ). It was performed in 1949 by the theater group Budoo no Kai , which he founded in 1947 , followed by his first work Fūrō ( 風浪 , 1953). In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the most important exponents of modern drama in Japan and was considered the Japanese Henry Miller . In 1978 he was awarded the Yomiuri Literature Prize. He also submitted a translation of the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare and wrote several writings on literary theory. For Dorama no sekai (The World of Drama) he received the Mainichi Culture Prize in 1959 and his work Shigosen no matsuri ( 子午線 の 祀 り ) was awarded the Mainichi Art Prize in 1979 . In 1966 his only novel Mugen kidō (Street Without End) was published.

Works

• Fūrō , 1934
• Yūzuru , 1949
• Tsuru Nyōbō , 1943
• Yamanami , 1949
• Kurai hibana , 1950
• Kaeru shōten , 1951
• Onnyoro seisuiki , 1957
• Okinawa , 1961
• Ottō to yobareru Nihonjin , 1962
• Fuju no jidai , 1964 (via Richard Sorge )
• Shimpan , 1970

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• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 524 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Gabrielle H. Cody, "The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama," Volume 1, Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780231140324 , pp. 767-68
• John Scott Miller, "Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater," Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107 , p. 53
• J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: "The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present" , Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780231138048 , p. 475
• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Kinoshita Junji
• The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979) - Kinoshita, Junji

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