Yamaguchi Hitomi

Yamaguchi Hitomi ( Japanese 山口 瞳 ; born November 3, 1923 in Tokyo ; † August 30, 1995 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Yamaguchi studied at Kokugakuin University and after graduating, he worked for the Kawade Shobo publishing house . After the company went bankrupt, he wrote for a wine magazine for the beverage manufacturer Kotobukiya , for which the writer Kaiko Ken also worked. From 1945 to 1948 he lived in Kamakura. Here he learned u. a. know the philosopher Saegusa Hiroto and the writers Yoshino Hideo and Takami Jun .

From 1954 he published literary reviews in the magazine Gendai Hyōron . 1961–1962 appeared in the women's magazine Fujin Gaho ( 婦人 画報 ) his novel Eburimanshi no yuga na seikatsu ( 江 分 利 満 氏 の 優雅 な 生活 ), for which he received the Naoki Prize in 1963 and which was made into a film. Other successful novels were Majime ningen , Izakaya Choji , Ketsu zoku and Kazoku . From 1963 until his death, a series of 1,614 humorous essays on the joys and sorrows of everyday life and the childhood of his own parents appeared in the weekly magazine Shūkan Shinchō ( 週刊 新潮 ) under the title Dansei jishin ( 男性 自身 ) for 31 years . In 1979 he received the Kikuchi Kan Prize for Ketsuzoku ( 血 族 ), which belonged to this series . He published a detailed report about his encounters with Takami Jun.

Yamaguchi, who suffered from diabetes and had overcome the disease, devoted himself exclusively to the Dansei jishin series in his old age . He contracted lung cancer and suddenly died in 1995 while preparing to move to a hospice.

filming

• 1963 Eburimanshi no yuga na seikatsu ( The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman )

Web links

• Yamaguchi Hitomi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kamakura City, Kamakura´s Literary Figures - Biography ( Memento from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IMDB

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