Miyao Tomiko

Miyao Tomiko ( Japanese 宮 尾 登 美 子 ; born April 13, 1926 in Kōchi , Kōchi Prefecture ; † December 30, 2014 ) was a Japanese writer.

The daughter of a gambler and agent for geishas attended middle school in Kōsaka and then worked as a teacher. After she won the Fujinkōron Prize for Young Women Authors with the story Ren ( 連 ) in 1962 , she became an author at a women's magazine in Tokyo. In 1964 she married the journalist Miyao Masao for the second time . Her literary success began when she received the Dazai Osamu Prize for Kai ( 櫂 ) in 1974 . In 1976 Yōkirō ( 陽 暉 楼 ), a novel about a girl who was sold into prostitution by the family at the age of twelve and later became a geisha, and Iwago oboe-gaki ( 岩 伍 覚 え 書 ), a book based on her father's diaries, came into being .

For Kantsubaki ( 寒 椿 ) Miyao received the Women's Literature Prize in 1977 , for Ichigen no koto ( 一 絃 の 琴 ) the Naoki Prize the following year . After the novel Kyara no kaori ( 伽羅 の 香 , 1981), the short story volume Yamamomo no ureru koro ( 楊梅 の 熟 れ る 頃 ) was published in 1982 . Jo no mai ( 序 の 舞 , 1982) - awarded the Yoshikawa Eiji Literature Prize - is based on the biography of the painter Uemura Shōen . In 1984 the two-volume novel Shuka ( 朱 夏 ) was published. In 2008 Miyao was awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize , in 2009 she was honored as a person with special cultural merits ( Bunka Kōrōsha ).

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• Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Marlene R. Edelstein: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century: 104 Biographies, 1900–1993 . Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, ISBN 87-7289-268-4 , p. 275–277 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Miyao Tomiko in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ japanbullet.com , accessed March 9, 2017

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