was the
pen-name
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A pen na ...
of a novelist in
Shōwa period
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* Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufacturer, affiliated with the Honda keiretsu
Japanese eras
* Jōwa (Heian ...
Japan, known primarily for his
biographical works
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and works on literary history. His real name was Fujio Hirai.
Noguchi was born in
Kōjimachi
is a district in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
History
Prior to the arrival of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the area was known as . The area developed as townspeople settled along the Kōshū Kaidō.
In 1878, the Kōjimachi area became , a ward of the city of Tokyo.
I ...
,
Tokyo
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, and studied at
Keio University
, mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword
, type = Private research coeducational higher education institution
, established = 1858
, founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa
, endowmen ...
. His first published work was a novel about the pathos in the lives of common people, ''Kaze no keifu'' ("Genealogy of the Wind", 1940).
In the post-
World War II
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period, he turned to works
biography
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and
literary history
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, with ''Tokuda Shusei den'' ("Biography of
Tokuda Shusei", 1965) about the noted author. This was followed by ''Kurai yoru no watashi'' ("Myself on a Dark Night", 1969), describing the literary world in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. His biography of
Nagai Kafu Nagai may refer to:
*Nagai (surname), a Japanese surname
*Nagai, Yamagata, a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
*An alternative name for Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, India
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''Waga Kafu'' ("My Kafu", 1969), was awarded the
Yomiuri Prize
The is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shinbun Company to help form a "strong cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone.
Award categories
For the first two years, a ...
.
In 1981 he was awarded the
Japan Art Academy
is the highest-ranking official artistic organization in Japan. It is established as an extraordinary organ of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁, Bunkacho) in the thirty-first article of the law establishing the Ministry of Ed ...
Prize,
and in 1986, he published ''Kanshokuteki Shōwa bundan shi'' ("An Impressionistic History of Shōwa Literature").
See also
*
Japanese literature
Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or , a Chinese-Japanes ...
*
List of Japanese authors
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Writers are listed by the native order of Japanese names, family name followed by given name to ensure consistency although some ...
References
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1911 births
1993 deaths
Japanese writers
Japanese non-fiction writers
People from Tokyo
Yomiuri Prize winners
20th-century non-fiction writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers
Presidents of the Japan Writers’ Association