Shiba Ryotaro
Ryōtarō Shiba ( Japanese 司馬遼太郎 ; actually: Fukuda Teiichi ( 福田定一 ); * 7. August 1923 in Osaka ; † 12. February 1996 ) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Shiba studied Mongolian at the foreign language school Osaka (京都 外国語 学校, Kyōto gaikokugo gakkō, today "Kyōto University of Foreign Studies"). He worked as a journalist for the Sankei Shimbun newspaper before turning to writing after World War II. With his first novel Fukurō no Shiro , he received the Naoki Prize in 1959 . As a result, he wrote numerous historical novels famous in Japan, which appeared in a fifty-volume edition. So far, only the novel The Last Shogun ( Saigo no Shogun ) has been published in German translation . Several of his novels were also made into films. From 1968 to 1972 he published the novel Saka no Ue no Kumo in several volumes. Between 1971 and 1996 the magazine Shukan Asahi published 1,147 travelogues under the title Kaidō o Yuku ( 街道 を ゆ く ), some of which were edited for television.
In 1966 Shiba received the Kikuchi Kan Prize for Ryōma ga Yuku , Kunitori Monogatari , and others. a., 1967 the Mainichi Art Prize for Junshi , 1968 the Osaragi Jirō Prize for the novel Dattan Shippūroku , 1976 the Grand Prize for Japanese Literature and the Prize of the Japanese Academy of Arts for Kūkai no Fūkei . In 1981 he was awarded the Yomiuri Literature Prize for Hitobito no Ashioto , and in 1982 the Asahi Prize . In 1991 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1993.
Ryōma ga Yuku , originally published in the Sankei Shimbun daily between 1962 and 1966 , sold more than 24 million copies in book form.
In total, he published more than 600 titles by 2006, which together sold more than 200 million times.
From 1986 to 1990 he headed the foundation of the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka . He was also on the selection committee for the Watsuji Tetsurō Culture Prize .
The Shiba Ryōtarō Prize has been awarded in his honor since 1998 .
Works
Historical novels
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Short story collections (selection)
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From 1973 to 2000 a 68-volume complete edition was published by the Bungei Shunjū publishing house .
literature
- S. Noma (Ed.): Shiba Ryōtarō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1360.
- Harald Meyer: Japan's bestseller king. A narratological-aesthetic success analysis of the phenomenon Shiba Ryōtarō (1923–1996) (= Erfurt series on the history of Asia . Volume 10 ). Iudicium, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86205-210-3 .
swell
- Donald Keene: Five Modern Japanese Novelists . Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-231-50749-6 , pp. 85–100 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- J. Scott Miller: The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater . Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7615-6 , pp. 110 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Histo Couch - Ryotaro Shiba
- ↑ a b 司馬遼太郎 没 後 １０ 年 シ ン ポ ジ ウ ム 「街道 を ゆ く」 の 世界 主 催 者 あ い さ つ . Asahi Shimbun, 2006, accessed July 8, 2013 (Japanese).
- ↑ 山上 直 子 : 竜 馬 が ゆ く 京都 （１） 薩摩 藩邸 、 今 は 「同志」 . (No longer available online.) In: Sankei Shimbun. June 19, 2012, archived from the original on August 17, 2013 ; Retrieved July 7, 2013 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 司馬遼太郎 対 話 選集 . Bungei Shunjū, accessed July 7, 2013 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shiba, Ryotaro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 司馬 遼 太郎 (Japanese, pseudonym); Fukuda, Teiichi (real name); 福田 定 一 (Japanese, real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1996 |
| Place of death | Osaka |