Yamamoto Shūgorō

Yamamoto Shūgorō ( Japanese 山 本 周五郎 ; born June 22, 1903 in Yamanashi Prefecture ; † February 14, 1967 ) was a Japanese writer .

The author was born as Shimizu Satomu ( 清水 三 十六 ), where his first name literally means 36, in the year Meiji 36 (1903) in Yamanashi Prefecture , but attended elementary school in Yokohama . He then worked at a pawnbroker in Hibiki-chō, Ginza , Tokyo, from which he took his pseudonym. Shaped by the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 , he began writing, where he made his debut in 1926 with Sumadera fukin ( 須 磨 寺 附近 ). In his works he always described the life of "little people". Like all other literary prizes, he rejected the Naoki Prize of 1943 for his first successful work Nihon fudōki ( 日本 婦 道 記 ) on the life of samurai women, only the award of the Mainichi Culture Prize 1959 for the novel Mominoki wa nokotta ( 樅の 木 は 残 っ た ) about the date riots and the reinterpretation of the person of Harada Munesuke , he accepted. Other of his novels were Akahige shinryō tan (1958), Tenchi silkai ( 天地 静 大 ; 1959), Momi no ki wa nokkota (1958), Aokabe monogatari ( 青 べ か 物語 ; 1960), Kisetsu no nai machi ( 季節 の な い 街 ; 1962), Nagai saka ( な が い 坂 ; 1964) and Ogosoka na kawaki ( お ご そ か な 渇 き ; 1967); the latter remained unfinished. In 1988 the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize was donated in his memory .

His works have been adapted in more than 30 films, but also as television series and stage plays.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ 山 本 周五郎 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved April 12, 2014 (Japanese). 

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