Tachihara Masaaki

Tachihara Masaaki ( Japanese 立 原 正 秋 ; born January 6, 1926 in Andō , Chōsen , former Japanese Empire , today's South Korea ; † August 12, 1980 in Kamakura , Japan ) was a Japanese writer .

Tachihara was born to parents of Korean origin in Andō during the time when Korea was part of the Japanese Empire . His Korean name was Kim Yun-kyu ( Kor. 김윤규 , 金 胤 奎 ). After his father's death he came in the mid-1930s and moved to Yokosuka . From 1945 he studied law at Waseda University in Tokyo .

From the following year he also attended lectures on Japanese literature . With his first novel Bakushū he won a competition in the literary magazine Bungei Kenkyūkai published by Tanizaki Seiji and decided to pursue a career as a writer. He was greatly impressed by medieval Japanese culture , such as ceramics, garden art and the Noh theater . It was said that Fūshikaden ( 風姿 花 伝 ), a standard work on the Nō theater by Zeami Motokiyo , was a guide to his own literary work. In 1966 he was awarded the Naoki Prize .

Works (selection)

• Bakushu ( 麦秋 )
• Tanin no Jiyū ( 他人 の 自由 ), 1958
• Takigi Nō ( 薪 能 )
• Tsurugi-ga-Saki ( 剣 ケ 崎 )
• Shiroi Keshi ( 白 い 罌粟 )
• Fuyu no Tabi ( 冬 の 旅 )
• Natsu no Hikari ( 夏 の 光 )
• Kinuta ( き ぬ た )
• Fuyu no Katami ni ( 冬 の か た み に )

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