Tonomura Shigeru

Shigeru Tonomura

Tonomura's birthplace, now a museum, 35 ° 9 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 136 ° 10 ′ 47.2 ″  E

Tonomura Shigeru ( Japanese writer pseudonym : 外 村 繁 , civil: 外 村 茂 ; * December 23, 1902 in Kondō, Gokashō , Kanzaki-gun (today: Gokashō-Kondō-chō, Higashiōmi ), Shiga prefecture ; † July 28, 1961 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

His parents were followers of the Buddhist sect Jōdo-Shinshū . He graduated from Tokyo University in economics and then took over the family business as a cotton wholesaler. Tonomura's birthplace and home in Gokashō is now a museum showing the life of merchants in Ōmi province (forerunner of Shiga prefecture).

In 1956 Tonomura received the 9th Noma Literature Prize for Ikada , and in 1960 the 12th Yomiuri Prize for Miotsukushi . Tonomura is an important representative of the Japanese first-person novel ( 私 小説 , Shishōsetsu ).

Works

• 1933 U no monogatari ( 鵜 の 物語 )
• 1935–1938 Kusa ikada ( 草 筏 )
• 1949 Mugen houyou ( 夢幻泡影 )
• 1949 Haru no yoru no yume ( 春 の 夜 の 夢 )
• 1950 Mogami-gawa ( 最 上 川 )
• 1953 Aka to kuro ( 赤 と 黒 )
• 1954 Yūbae ( 夕 映 え )
• 1954–56 Ikada ( 筏 )
• 1954 Iwa no aru niwa no fūkei ( 岩 の あ る 庭 の 風景 )
• 1957–58 Hana ikada ( 花 筏 )
• 1960 Yoiyume mōmō ( 酔 夢 朦朦 )
• 1960 Miotsukushi ( 澪 標 )
• 1960 Rakujitsu no Kōkei ( 落日 の 光景 )
• 1960–61 Nurenizo nureshi ( 濡 れ に ぞ 濡 れ し )
• 1991 Hi o oshimu ( 日 を 愛 し む )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 東 近 江 市 五個 荘 近 江 商人 屋 敷 条例 . (No longer available online.) Higashiōmi, February 11, 2005, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 2, 2010 (Japanese).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

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