was a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

author and Sinologist. He graduated from Keio university. He wrote a number of historical novels, and published a new Japanese translation of

Romance of the Three Kingdoms ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'' () is a 14th-century historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong. It is set in the turbulent years towards the end of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history, starting in 184 AD ...

in 1959. In 1951,he won

Naoki Prize The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for t ...

. He is famous for his novel

Nemuri Kyōshirō is a series of jidaigeki novels written by Renzaburō Shibata. The stories were originally serialized beginning in May 1956 in the ''Shūkan Shinchō''. The stories take place during the Edo period under the Tokugawa shogunate and the rules o ...

series.

Novels

(1956) * Gokenin Zankurō (1976) *

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*Unmeitōge *Iesu no Ei (lit. Descendant of Jesus)

Adaptations

Film

* ''

Destiny's Son is a 1962 Japanese chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi starring Raizo Ichikawa and written by Kaneto Shindo, released by Daiei Film. The film is based on one of the novels in the series of Nemuri Kyoshirō, written by Renzaburō Shibata. ...

'' (1962) * '' Enter Kyōshirō Nemuri the Swordman'' (1963) * '' Curse of the Blood'' (1968) * '' Nemuri Kyōshirō manji giri'' (1969)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shibata, Renzaburō 1917 births 1978 deaths 20th-century Japanese novelists