Wahei Tatematsu

Wahei Tatematsu ( Japanese 立 松 和平 , Tatematsu Wahei ; born December 15, 1947 in Utsunomiya , † February 8, 2010 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese writer and essayist .

Tatematsu studied politics and economics at Waseda University . After graduation he worked a. a. as a nurse, construction worker, truck driver at a fish market and as a bartender. In 1980 he achieved his breakthrough as a writer with the novel Enrai ( 遠 雷 , " Distant Thunder "), for which he received the Noma Literature Prize. In 1997 he was awarded the Mainichi Culture Prize for Doku fubun Tanaka Shōzō ( 毒 - 風聞 ・ 田中 正 造 ) . Later he turned increasingly to Buddhist topics. His two-volume novel Dōgen Zenji ( 道 元 禅師 ) about the Zen master Dōgen received several prizes, including a special prize from the 2007 Izumi-Kyōka Literature Prize .

Works (selection)

• Enrai ( 遠 雷 ). 1980.
  • German: rumbling thunder in the distance . In: Jürgen Berndt (Ed.): Snapshots of modern Japanese literature . Silver & Goldstein Buchverlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-927463-10-8 , pp. 136–37 (translated by Heike Schöche).
• Temoto no niji ( 手 も と の 虹 ). 1986.
  • German: A rainbow in hand . In: Eduard Klopfenstein (Hrsg.): Mondscheintropfen. Japanese stories 1940–1990 (Zurich series of Japanese literature). Theseus-Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-85936-061-2 , pp. 128-141 (translated by Urs Loosli).
• Hidaka ( 日 高 ). 2012.
  • German: Frozen dreams . Angkor publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-936018-85-1 (translated by Bruno Rhymer).
• Zombie - tears (story), in: Well-kept peaches or About sadness , ed. v. Noboru Miyazaki. bankruptcy book 1992, ISBN 3-88769-057-5 .

swell

• Akihiko Kaminoyama: Learns from Wahei Tatematsu
• La Littérature Japonaise - Tatematsu Wahei
• buchhandel.de: Tatematsu, Wahei: Frozen dreams