Usui Yoshimi
Usui Yoshimi ( Japanese 臼 井 吉 見 ; born June 17, 1905 in Mita (today: Azumino ), Nagano Prefecture ; † July 22, 1987 ) was a Japanese writer, critic and editor. He had been a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts since 1975 . His son is the filmmaker Usui Takase .
Life
Usui was born the second eldest son in Nagano Prefecture. He attended the local middle and high school Matsumoto. His high school classmates included Furuta Akira (1906–1973), the founder of the Chikuma bookstore, and Matsumoto Kappei (1905–1995), actor and theater critic. He then graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo with a degree in Japanese literature. He initially worked as a teacher until he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Tembō ( 展望 ) in 1946 . In 1964 he began his main work Azumino , which he completed a decade later in 1974 and for which he received the Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize .
When he published his work Jiko no tenmatsu (approximately: "Details of the accident"), in which he dealt with the background of Kawabata's lonely youth up to suicide, in 1977 in the Tembō , he caught the protest of Kawabata's family, the sought an injunction against publication in a civil lawsuit.
Works
- 1974 Azumino ( 安 曇 野 )
- 1977 Jiko no tenmatsu ( 事故 の て ん ま つ )
literature
- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 1021 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
Web links
- 臼 井 吉 見 . Azumino City, 2009,accessed May 18, 2013(Japanese, Biographical Sketch).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Usui, Yoshimi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 臼 井 吉 見 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer, critic and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mita (now: Azumino ), Nagano Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1987 |