Kyōko Shinkai

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Kyōko Shinkai

Kyōko Shinkai ( Japanese 眞 海 恭子 , Shinkai Kyōko ; born March 29, 1942 ) is a Japanese writer and painter .

Life

Kyōko Shinkai spent her childhood and youth on the Japanese island of Iki . From 1961 to 1965, she studied at the Musashino Art School in Tokyo . From 1965 she studied at the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts . In 1971 she married the theater director and actor Wolfram Mehring . She has lived in Germany since 1990 and has worked as an author of historical novels and as a stage and costume designer since 2001 .

Works (selection)

  • Kieta Mura ( 消 え た 村 , "The Lost Village"). Tōyō Shuppan, Tōkyō 2014.
  • Iga no Hōzuki ( 伊 賀 の 鬼 灯 ). Tōyō Shuppan, Tōkyō 2010.
  • Kiri no Oto ( 霧 の 音 , "The sound of the mist"). Tōyō Shuppan, Tōkyō 2008.
  • Suterareta Edo Musume ( 捨 て ら れ た 江 戶 娘 ). Tōyō Shuppan, Tōkyō 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiri no Oto , p. 323
  2. ↑ Suterareta Edo Musume , p. 231
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Shinkai is the family name, Kyōko the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Shinkai, Kyōko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 眞 海 恭子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1942