Tamura Taijirō

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Tamura Taijirō ( Japanese 田村 泰 次郎 ; born November 30, 1911 in Yokkaichi ; † November 2, 1983 ) was a Japanese writer.

Tamura studied literature at Waseda University and was established as a writer before World War II. During the war he was a soldier in China for five years. With novels like Nikutai no Mon ( 肉体 の 門 , “Gate of the Flesh”, 1947) and Shunpuden ( 春 婦 伝 , “Story of a Prostitute”, 1947), in which he told the fate of a Korean prostitute in the Japanese army Tamura as the most important representative of nikutai bungaku ("literature of the flesh"), a current of modern Japanese literature that was characterized by deep skepticism towards philosophical and ideological systems. Both of these novels were filmed several times in Japan.

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  • Ikuho Amano: Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan: Spectacles of Idle Labor . Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 978-1-137-37743-2 , pp. 130–131 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • H. Eleanor Kerkham: Pleading for the Body: Tamura Taijirō's 1947 Korean Comfort Woman Story, Biography of a Prostitute . In: Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, H. Eleanor Kerkham (Eds.): War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960 . University of Hawaii Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8248-2433-4 , pp. 310–359 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Tamura Taijirō in the Internet Movie Database (English)