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Honkaku
, is a popular genre of Japanese literature. History Name When Western detective fiction spread to Japan, it created a new genre called detective fiction () in Japanese literature. After World War II the genre was renamed deductive reasoning fiction (). The genre is sometimes called ''mystery'', although this includes non-detective fiction as well. Development Edogawa Rampo is the first Japanese modern mystery writer and the founder of the Detective Story Club in Japan. Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers. He gained his fame in early 1920s, when he began to bring to the genre many bizarre, erotic and even fantastic elements. This is partly because of the social tension before World War II. Rampo's mystery novels generally followed conventional formulas, and have been classed as part of the , called "orthodox school", or "standard" detective fiction, or "authentic" detective fiction. In 1957, Seicho Matsumoto received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for his sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honkaku Mystery Writers Club Of Japan
is a Japan-based organization for mystery writers who write ''honkaku'' (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery. The organization was founded on 3 November 2000 by Yukito Ayatsuji, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Hiroko Minagawa, Kaoru Kitamura, Tetsuya Ayukawa and other mystery writers. It is currently chaired by Rintaro Norizuki and claims about 170 members. It presents the Honkaku Mystery Awards to writers every year and produces the annual anthology. Honkaku mystery ''Honkaku'' (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery is one of subgenres of mystery fiction that focuses on "fair play". Mystery novels written during the "Golden Age" of the mystery novel (e.g., the Ellery Queen novels) are regarded as examples of honkaku mystery. Presidents # Alice Arisugawa (2000–2005) ( :ja:有栖川有栖) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Arisugawa
, mainly known by his pseudonym , is a Japanese mystery writer. He is one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing and was the first president of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan from 2000 to 2005. He has also served as part of the selection committee for various literary awards, most notably the Ayukawa Tetsuya Award from 1996 to 1999 and Edogawa Rampo Prize from 2014 to 2017. Works in English translation *'' The Moai Island Puzzle'' (original title: ''Kotō Pazuru''), trans. Ho-Ling Wong (Locked Room International, 2016) Awards and nominations * 1996 – Nominee for 49th Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Short Story: "Chocho ga Habataku" * 2003 – 56th Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: ''Mare Tetsudo no Nazo'' (''The Malayan Railway Mystery'') * 2003 – Nominee for 3rd Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: ''Mare Tetsudo no Nazo'' (''The Malayan Railway Mystery'') * 2004 – Nominee for 4th Honka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honkaku Mystery Award
The are presented every year by the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. They honor the best in honkaku (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery fiction and critical works published in the previous year. Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction winners * Nominees available in English translation ** 05 (2005) - Taku Ashibe, ** 10 (2010) - Yukito Ayatsuji, Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Critical Work winners Honkaku Mystery Award for Lifetime Achievement winners The award is presented irregularly. * 01 (2001) - Tetsuya Ayukawa (Honkaku mystery writer) * 04 (2004) - Yasunobu Togawa ( ja) (editor), Hideomi Uyama ( ja) (editor) * 08 (2008) - Fu Chin-chuan (Hiroshi Shimazaki) ( ja) (editor) Best Foreign Honkaku Mystery of the Decade (2000-2009) The Best Honkaku Mystery Novel translated into Japanese in the last decade (2000–2009). * Jack Kerley, ''The Death Collectors'' ** Shortlisted titles *** Sarah Caldwell, ''The Sibyl in Her Grave'' *** Jeffery Deaver, '' The Cold Moon'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rintaro Norizuki
is a Japanese mystery/crime writer. He is the President of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing. His works are deeply influenced by Ellery Queen and Ross Macdonald. Works in English translation ;Short story * ''An Urban Legend Puzzle'' (original title: Toshi Densetsu Pazuru), trans. Beth Cary **''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', January 2004 **''Passport to Crime: Finest Mystery Stories from International Crime Writers'', Running Press, 2007 **''The Mammoth Book of Best International Crime'', Robinson Publishing, 2009 * ''The Lure of the Green Door'' (original title: Midori no Tobira wa Kiken), trans. Ho-Ling Wong **''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', November 2014 Awards * 2000 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (2000 Honkaku Mystery Best 10): ''Norizuki Rintarō no Shin Bōken'' (The New Adventures of Rintaro Norizuki) * 2002 – Mystery Writers of Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukito Ayatsuji
, who writes under his pen name , is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror. He is one of the founders of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing. His wife is Fuyumi Ono, a Japanese fantasy and horror writer who is known for her fantasy series ''The Twelve Kingdoms''. His first novel ''The Decagon House Murders'' was ranked as the No. 8 novel on the Top 100 Japanese Mystery Novels of All Time. In 2018, a minor planet (2001 RG46) was named as Yukito Ayatsuji. Translations ;Another series * '' Another'', translated by Karen McGillicuddy (Yen Press, 2013) * ''Another Episode S / 0'', translated by Karen McGillicuddy (Yen Press, 2016) * 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 2001, translated by Nicole Wilder (Yen Press, 2022) ;Bizarre House/Mansion Murders series * ''The Decagon House Murders'' (original title: ''Jukkakukan no Satsujin''), translated by Ho-Ling Wong (Locked Room Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taku Ashibe
is a Japanese mystery writer. He is a member of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing. Works in English translation ;Novel * '' Murder in the Red Chamber'' (original title: '' Kōrōmu no Satsujin''), trans. Tyran C. Grillo (Kurodahan Press, 2012) ;Short story * "The Horror in the Kabuki Theatre" (original title: "Gohei Gekijō: Kabuki no Kuni Cthulhu Taiji"), trans. Sheryl Hogg (''Lairs of the Hidden Gods 2: Inverted Kingdom'', Kurodahan Press, 2005) Awards and nominations * 1990 – Ayukawa Tetsuya Award for New Mystery Writers: ''Satsujin Kigeki no Jūsan-nin'' (''Thirteen in a Murder Comedy'') * 2002 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: ''Guran Ginyōru Jō'' (''The Castle of Grand Guignol'') * 2005 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: '' Murder in the Red Chamber'' * 2009 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: ''Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soji Shimada
is a Japanese mystery writer. Born in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Biography Soji Shimada graduated from Seishikan High School in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and later Musashino Art University as a Commercial arts design major. After spending years as a dump truck driver, free writer, and musician, he made his debut as a mystery writer in 1981 when ''The Tokyo Zodiac Murders'' was shortlisted for the Edogawa Rampo Prize. His most well-known works in Japan include the ''Detective Mitarai Series'' and the ''Detective Yoshiki Series''. His works often involve themes such as the death penalty, Nihonjinron (his theory on the Japanese people), and Japanese and international culture. He is a strong supporter of amateur ''Honkaku'' (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery writers. Following the trend of Social School of crime fiction led by Seicho Matsumoto, he was the pioneer of "Shin-Honkaku" (New Orthodox) logic mystery genre. He bred authors such as Yukito Ay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Writers Of Japan Award
The are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan. They honor the best in crime fiction and critical/biographical work published in the previous year. MWJ Award for Best Novel winners (1948–1951, 1976–present) MWJ Award for Best Short Story winners (1948–1951, 1976–present) MWJ Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work winners (1976–present) * MWJ Award for Best Work (1952–1975) winners for their Critical Work ** 05 (1952) - EDOGAWA Rampo, ''Gen'ei-jo'' (Studies on detective fiction) ** 19 (1966) - Kawataro Nakajima, ''Suiri Shosetsu Tembo'' (Studies on detective fiction) MWJ Award for Best Work winners (1952–1975) Nominees available in English translation * Nominees for Best Novel ** 02 (1949) - Akimitsu Takagi, ** 37 (1984) - Kenzo Kitakata, ** 42 (1989) - Joh Sasaki, ** 65 (2012) - Mahokaru Numata, * Nominees for Short Story ** 56 (2003) - Otsuichi, (A chapter of the Novel ''Goth'') ** 60 (2007) - Gaku Yakumaru ( ja), (Gaku Yakumar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaoru Kitamura
(born December 28, 1949) is the pen name of , a popular contemporary Japanese writer, mainly of short stories. Biography Kitamura was born in the town of Sugito in Saitama Prefecture. He studied literature at Waseda University in Tokyo, and was a member of the Waseda Mystery Club while a student there. However, after graduating from Waseda in 1972, he returned to Saitama to become a language teacher at Kasukabe High School, his alma mater. He began his fiction writing career only after teaching for almost twenty years, and stopped teaching in 1993 to devote himself completely to writing once established as an author. He made his writing debut using a pen name. Initially, because the unnamed first-person protagonist of his early works was a female college student, and the name Kaoru is gender ambiguous, it was widely speculated that Kitamura was female. This speculation persisted until he revealed his identity upon accepting the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1991. Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honkaku
, is a popular genre of Japanese literature. History Name When Western detective fiction spread to Japan, it created a new genre called detective fiction () in Japanese literature. After World War II the genre was renamed deductive reasoning fiction (). The genre is sometimes called ''mystery'', although this includes non-detective fiction as well. Development Edogawa Rampo is the first Japanese modern mystery writer and the founder of the Detective Story Club in Japan. Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers. He gained his fame in early 1920s, when he began to bring to the genre many bizarre, erotic and even fantastic elements. This is partly because of the social tension before World War II. Rampo's mystery novels generally followed conventional formulas, and have been classed as part of the , called "orthodox school", or "standard" detective fiction, or "authentic" detective fiction. In 1957, Seicho Matsumoto received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for his sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Age Of Detective Fiction
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s. The Golden Age proper is, in practice, usually taken to refer to a type of fiction which was predominant in the 1920s and 1930s but had been written since at least 1911 and is still being written today. In his history of the detective story, ''Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel'', the author Julian Symons heads two chapters devoted to the Golden Age as "the Twenties" and "the Thirties". Symons notes that Philip Van Doren Stern's article, "The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley" (1941) "could serve ... as an obituary for the Golden Age."Symons, Julian, ''Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History''. London: Faber and Faber, 1972 (with revisions in Penguin Books, 1974). . Page 149 (Penguin edition). Most of the authors of the Golden Age were British: Margery Allingham (1904–1966), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edogawa Rampo Prize
The , named after Edogawa Rampo, is a Japanese literary award which has been presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan since 1955.Fukue, Nastuko,Literary awards run spectrum, ''Japan Times'', 14 February 2012, p. 3. Though its name is similar to the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which has been presented by Mystery Writers of America, the Edogawa Rampo Prize is not a counterpart of the Edgar Awards. The Japanese counterparts of the Edgar awards are the Mystery Writers of Japan Awards, which honor the best in crime fiction and critical/biographical work published in the previous year. The Edogawa Rampo Prize is an award for unpublished mystery novels. It is sponsored by Kodansha and Fuji Television. Not only is the novel of the winner, which is selected from more than 300 entries, published by Kodansha, but the winner also receives a prize of 10,000,000 yen. The members of the 2014 selection committee are Natsuo Kirino, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Ira Ishida, Alice Arisugawa (:ja:有栖 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |