Bunroku Shishi (a pen name for ''Toyoo Iwata''; b. July 1, 1893,

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; d. Dec. 13, 1969) was a Japanese

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and director of the Bungakuza Theater in

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. In 1922 he traveled to

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to study modern French theater, and worked in the atelier of

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Selected books

* ''Ecchan'', (Little Etsuko, 1936) * ''Ten'ya Wan'ya'' (Chaos, 1949) * ''Jiyū Gakkō'', (1950) Published in English in 2006 as ''School of Freedom'' by Lynne E. Riggs, . * ''Yassa Mossa'', (Helter-Skelter, 1952) * ''Musume to Watashi'', (My Daughter And I, 1956, was made into both a TV-series and a movie) * ''Hakoneyama'', (Mount Hakone, 1962)

References

*牧村健一郎『獅子文六の二つの昭和』朝日新聞出版,　2009 (Makimura Kenichirō, ''Shishi Bunroku no futatsu no Shōwa'', Asahi Shinbun Shuppan, 2009)

External links

J'Lit , Authors : Bunroku Shishi , Books from Japan
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shishi, Bunroku Japanese writers 1893 births 1969 deaths People from Yokohama Recipients of the Order of Culture