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Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
is an annual award given to distinguished literary works and activities in the sectors literature and art, humanities and social science, natural science, and encyclopedic work, plus a special award. It was founded in 1947 and is sponsored by the Mainichi Newspapers Co., the publishing house of the Mainichi Shimbun. Recipients (selected) ;1947 * Literature and art award for Jun'ichirō Tanizaki for ''Sasameyuki'' (''The Makioka Sisters'') * Literature and art award for Yuriko Miyamoto for ''Kazeshirigusa'' and ''Harimaheiya'' ;1948 * Literature and art award for Michio Takeyama for ''Biruma no tategoto'' ;1951 * Literature and art award for Kōnosuke Hinatsu for ''Nihon gendaishi taikei'' ;1952 * Literature and art award for Hiroshi Noma for ''Shinkū chitai'' ;1954 * Literature and art award for Sue Sumii for ''Yoru ake asa ake'' ;1955 * Literature and art award for Ken Domon for ''Murō-ji'' * Literature and art award for Shigeharu Nakano for ''Muragimo'' ;1958 * Literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of professional training, mathematics, and the natural and social sciences. They use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences;"Humanity" 2.b, ''Oxford English Dictionary'' 3rd Ed. (2003) yet, unlike the sciences, the humanities have no general history. The humanities include the studies of foreign languages, history, philosophy, language arts (literature, writing, oratory, rhetoric, poetry, etc.), performing arts ( theater, music, dance, etc.), and visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, etc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarō Okamoto
was a Japanese artist, art theorist, and writer. He is particularly well known for his avant-garde paintings and public sculptures and murals, and for his theorization of traditional Japanese culture and avant-garde artistic practices. Biography Early life (1911–1929) Taro Okamoto was the son of cartoonist Okamoto Ippei and writer Okamoto Kanoko. He was born in Takatsu, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1927, at the age of sixteen, Okamoto began to take lessons in oil painting from the artist Wada Eisaku. In 1929, Okamoto entered the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (today Tokyo University of the Arts) in the oil painting department. Time in Europe (1929–1940) In 1929, Okamoto and his family accompanied his father on a trip to Europe to cover the London Naval Treaty of 1930. While in Europe, Okamoto spent time in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Paris, where he rented a studio in Montparnasse and enrolled in a lycée in Choisy-le-Roi. After his parents returned to Japan i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideo Takubo
was a noted Japanese author. He studied French literature at Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ..., and won the 61st Akutagawa Prize in 1969 for ''Fukaikawa'' (Deep River), the 37th Yomiuri Prize in 1985 for ''Kaizu'', and the 50th Noma Literary Prize in 1997 for ''Kodamashu''. References 1928 births 2001 deaths Japanese writers Akutagawa Prize winners Yomiuri Prize winners 20th-century novelists {{japan-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin'ichirō Nakamura
was a Japanese author. Prizes * 1978 Tanizaki Prize for ''Natsu'' (Summer, 夏) English translations * The Genie and Her Magic Bottle', translated by Hanabusa, ''Prism International ''Prism International'' (styled ''PRISM international'') is a magazine published quarterly in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1959, it is Western Canada's senior literary magazine. The magazine was started with name ''Prism'' ...'', Vol. 11, No. 2, Autumn 1971. Selected works * ''Kinō to kyō no monogatari'', 1948. * ''Ōchō no bungaku'', 1957. * ''Shi no kage no shita ni'', 1951. * ''Shi no kage no shita ni'', Tokyo : Shinzenbi Sha, 1947. * ''Aishin to shishin to'', 1950. * ''Shishū'', 1950. * ''Tamashii no yoru no naka o'', 1951. * ''Nagai tabi no owari'', 1952. * ''Bungaku no miryoku'', 1953. * ''Bungaku no sōzō'', 1953. * ''Nakamura Shinʾichirō shū'', 1953. * ''Akutagawa Ryūnosuke'', 1954. * ''Yahanraku'', 1954. * ''Tsumetai tenshi'', 1955. * ''Yasei no on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburō Shiroyama
Saburō Shiroyama (城山三郎, b. Eiichi Sugiura) (1927–2007) is a Japanese novelist. Shiroyama was born in Aichi Prefecture, and studied economics at Hitotsubashi University. He later taught economics at Nagoya Gakuin University. Shiroyama trained as a pilot for the Japanese Navy, but never saw active service. He began his writing career after the end of World War II. Many of his works concern ''shoshamen'', high-level industry executives within Japanese corporate culture. He is known to have used real people, such as Sahashi Shigeru, as the basis for such characters, though he tried to avoid actually meeting or interviewing these subjects. In 1957 he won the Bungakukai New Writers award for ''Export'' (''Yushutsu''), which established the economic novel (''keizai shosetsu'') as a mainstream literary form in Japan. He also won the Naoki Prize The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Akira
was a Japanese writer of short stories and novels. Biography Born in Hiroshima and grown up in Kanagawa Prefecture, Abe graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in French literature and worked as a director for Radio Tokyo (now TBS) until 1971, when he became a full-time writer. His literary career began in 1962 with the publication of his debut work ''Kodomobeya'' (lit. "Children's room"), for which he received the Bungakukai Newcomer Award (Bungakukai shinjinshō). Most of his stories draw upon his biography and his family in a contemporary I-novel style known as "mental state novel" (shinkyō shōsetsu). Other major works include the 1970 novel ''Shirei no kyūka'' (lit. "The commander's holiday") about his military officer father, and the 1972 short story ''Peaches'' (''Momo''), which, like ''Kodomobeya'', deals with personal childhood memories. He received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for his 1973 short story ''Sennen'' (lit. "Thousand years"). Abe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junzo Shono
was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka, he began writing novels after World War II. He won the 1954 Akutagawa Prize for his book ''Purusaido Shokei'' (''Poolside Scene''). Shōno's other award-winning books include ''Seibutsu'' (''Still Life''), for which he won the Shinchosha literary prize, ''Yube no Kumo'' (''Evening Clouds''), which was awarded the 1965 Yomiuri Prize, and ''Eawase'' (''Picture Cards'') which took the Noma literary prize. Biography Shōno lived for one year in the United States in the late 1950s on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation at Kenyon College in Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta .... He later published a book, ''Gambia Taizaiki'' about his experiences at Kenyon. Shōno was made a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1978. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jūkichi Uno
(real name ; 27 September 1914 – 9 January 1988) was a Japanese actor. In 1950, he formed the with Osamu Takizawa and others. Personal life He is the father of musician Akira Terao. Filmography Honours *Medals of Honor (Japan), Medal with Purple Ribbon (1981) References Actors from Fukui Prefecture 1914 births 1988 deaths 20th-century Japanese male actors Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Kaikō
was a prominent post-World War II Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ..., and television documentary writer. He was distinguished by his knowledge, intellect, sense of humor and conversational skills, and although his style has been criticized as wordy and obtuse, he was one of the more popular Japanese writers in the late Shōwa period. Early life Kaikō was born in the Tennoji-ku, Osaka, Tennoji Ward of Osaka as the son of an elementary school teacher. In 1948, he enrolled in the Law Department of Osaka City University, but was often absent from class, as he had to take a variety of part-time jobs in order to pay for his tuition. While in school, rather than study law he was sidetracked by the works of Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōtarō Yasuoka
was a Japanese writer. Biography Yasuoka was born in pre-war Japan in Kōchi, Kōchi, but as the son of a veterinary corpsman in the Imperial Army, he spent most of his youth moving from one military post to another. In 1944, he was conscripted and served briefly overseas. After the war, he became ill with spinal caries, and it was "while he was bedridden with this disease that he began his writing career." Yasuoka died in his home at age 92 in Tokyo, Japan. Awards As an influential Japanese writer, Yasuoka's work has won him various prizes and awards. Notably, he received the Akutagawa Prize for ''Inki na tanoshimi'' (''A Melancholy Pleasure'', 1953) and ''Warui nakama'' (''Bad Company'', 1953); ''Kaihen no kōkei'' (''A View by the Sea'', 1959) won him the Noma Literary Prize The Noma Literary Prize (''Noma Bungei Shō'') was established in 1941 by the Noma Service Association (''Noma Hōkō Kai'') in accordance with the last wishes of Seiji Noma (1878–1938), founder a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruo Umezaki
was a Japanese writer of short stories and novels. Biography Born in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Umezaki studied at the 5th High School of Kumamoto University, later at the Tokyo Imperial University where he majored in Japanese literature. He then worked at the same Tokyo University in the Faculty of Education Sciences (kyōiku). In 1944, he was drafted as a crypto specialist for the Imperial Japanese Navy and stationed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, an experience which he later dramatised in his famous novella ''Sakurajima'', published in 1946. He came back on this experience in his latest book, ''Genka'' (''Illusions'') published in 1965, the year of his death. After the war, he worked for the ''Sunao'' (素直) magazine, led by poet and social activist Shin'ichi Eguchi (1914–1979), in which ''Sakurajima'' and some of his short stories were published. ''Sakurajima'' established Umezaki as a representative of Japanese postwar literature along writers like Hiroshi Noma and Rinzō Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morio Kita
was the pen name of , a Japanese psychiatrist, novelist and essayist. Kita was the second son of poet Mokichi Saitō. Shigeta Saitō, his older brother, was also a psychiatrist. The essayist Yuka Saitō is Kita's daughter. Kita attended Azabu High School and Matsumoto Higher School (now part of Shinshu University), and graduated from Tohoku University's School of Medicine. He initially worked as a doctor at Keio University Hospital. Motivated by the collections of his father's poems and the books of German author Thomas Mann, he decided to become a novelist. Kita suffered from manic–depressive disorder from middle age onwards. Awards * 1960: Akutagawa Prize, for the novel, ''In The Corner Of Night And Fog'', which takes its title from Nacht und Nebel, the Nazi campaign to eliminate Jews, the mentally ill and other minorities. The novel concerns the moral quandary of staff at a German mental hospital during the final years of the Second World War. Faced with demands fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
