Wada Yoshie

Wada Yoshie ( Japanese 和田 芳 恵 ; born April 6, 1906 in Oshamambe , Yamakoshi County , Hokkaidō ; † October 5, 1977 ) was a Japanese writer who excelled in Higuchi-Ichiyō research . One of his main works is Ichiyō no nikki ( 一葉 の 日記 , dt. "The Ichiyō diaries") , published in 1943 .

Life

Wada Yoshie attended what was then Hokkai Middle School (now Hokkai High School ) in Sapporo and then went to Tōkyō , where he studied German law at Chūō University . After completing his studies, he took a job at Shinchōsha publishing house and wrote novels for literary magazines in addition to this employment. He began to deal with the work of Higuchi Ichiyōs, and published several works on this subject during the Second World War , including the 1942 published Higuchi Ichiyō kenkyū ( 樋 口 一葉 研究 , dt. "Studies on Higuchi Ichiyō").

After the war he tried his hand at running a novel, but failed and disappeared from 1949 to 1952 without a trace.

In 1963 he received the Naoki Prize in the second half of the year for his novel Chiri no naka , and in 1974 the Yomiuri Literature Prize in the field of "Novels" for Tsugiki no dai .

For Kurai Nagare ( 暗 い 流 れ ) he received the Grand Prize for Japanese Literature in 1977 , and for Yukionna ( 雪女 ) in 1978 the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize .

A five-volume complete edition of the works of Wada Yoshies was published by Kawade Shobō.

Web links

• Wada's tombstone

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Wada is the family name, Yoshie the first name.