Miura Ayako

Miura Ayako, 1966

Miura Ayako ( Japanese 三浦 綾 子 ; born as Hotta Ayako ( 堀 田 綾 子 ); born April 25, 1922 in Asahikawa ; † October 12, 1999 ) was a Japanese writer.

Miura attended Asahikawa Women's High School until 1939 and taught as an elementary school teacher until the end of the war. In 1946 she fell ill with tuberculosis and first came into contact with Christian ideas in the hospital. In 1952 she converted to Christianity, in 1959 she married Miura Mitsuyo , who was also a Christian. From 1961 to the appearance of her first novel Hyōten (1964), with which she won a prize from Asahi Shimbun magazine , she ran a business. The second part of the novel ( Zoku hyōten ) was published in 1971.

One of her most popular novels, Shiokari tōge , was published in 1968. In Hosokawa Garasha fujin (1975) Miura wrote about a Christian woman during the time when Christianity was banned in the Edo period. After the novel Deiryū chitai (1978), the essay Nanakamado no machi kara appeared in 1981 . In 1992 she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 1995 she completed the novel Inochi aru kagiri , while three other novels, which appeared in sequels in various magazines, remained unfinished.

Works (selection)

• Another way . Christian publishing house 1978. ISBN 3-7673-3355-4
• Shiokari Pass . VLM 1985. ISBN 3-88002-131-7
• My son Takiji . Iudicium 2014. ISBN 978-3-86205-391-9

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• Chieko Irie Mulhern: Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 9780313254864 , pp. 213-220.
• John Scott Miller: Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107 , p. 73.
• Biographies of modern writers - Miura Ayako. Jlit.net, Waseda University , Tokyo

Web links

• Website of the Miura Ayako Literature Museum

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