was a noted Japanese writer, essayist, and translator.
Prizes
* 1979 81st
Naoki Prize (1979上) for ''Rōkyoku shiasahimaru no hanashi / Mimi no koto'' (浪曲師朝日丸の話 / ミミのこと)
* 1979 15th
Tanizaki Prize for ''Poroporo'' (ポロポロ)
Selected works
* ''Kaburitsuki jinsei'', 1964.
* ''Ueno shōgitai'', 1968.
* ''Jidōmakidokei no ichinichi'', 1971.
* ''Omoshiro hambun taidan'', 1971.
* ''Otomejima no otome'', 1974.
* ''Ohōtsuku zuma'', 1975.
* ''Cheri to no sampo'', 1976.
* ''Betonamu ōjo'', 1979.
* ''Biggu heddo'', 1979.
* ''Gorinjū totokarucho'', 1979.
* ''Ishagirai ni sasageru hon'', 1979.
* ''Poroporo'' (ポロポロ), Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1979.
* ''Rōkyoku shiasahimaru no hanashi / Mimi no koto'' (浪曲師朝日丸の話 / ミミのこと), 1979.
* ''Yashi no tabi'' (香具師 の 旅), Tōkyō : Tairyūsha, 1979.
* ''Joruigaku nyūmon'', 1980.
* ''Mata yokomichi ni soremasu ga'', 1981.
* ''Chōjikan taidan'' (超時間 対談), Tōkyō : Shūeisha, 1981.
* ''Yoi'' (酔), Tōkyō : Sakuhinsha, 1988.
* ''Boku no shinema gurafiti'', Tōkyō : Shinchōsha, 1983.
* ''Nai mono no sonzai'' (ない もの の 存在), Tōkyō : Fukutake Shoten, 1990.
* ''Tanaka Komimasa essei korekushon'' (田中小実昌エッセイ・コレクション), Tåokyåo : Chikuma Shobåo, 2002.
Selected translation works
*
Carter Brown
Carter Brown was the literary pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 19235 May 1985), an English-born Australian writer of detective fiction. Between 1954 and 1984 Yates published 215 ‘Carter Brown’ novels and some ...
- ''The Dame'', ''The Brazen'', ''The Temptress'', ''Tomorrow is Murder'', ''The Stripper'', ''The Bombshell'', ''The Dream is Deadly'', ''Zelda'', ''The Lady is Available'', ''The Girl Who Was Possessed'', ''Nymph to the Slaughter'', ''Charlie Sent Me'', and more other works
*
James M. Cain
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
His novels ''The Postman Always Rings Twice ...
- ''
The Postman Always Rings Twice''
*
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive durin ...
- ''
The Lady in the Lake
''The Lady in the Lake'' is a 1943 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring the Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe. Notable for its removal of Marlowe from his usual Los Angeles environs for much of the book, the novel's comp ...
'', ''
The High Window
''The High Window'' is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler. It is his third novel featuring the Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe.
Plot
Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy widow Elizabeth Bright Murdock to rec ...
''
*
James Hadley Chase
James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he was well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond ...
- ''Tiger By the Tail'', ''
Shock Treatment'', ''
You've Got It Coming'', ''One Bright Summer Morning''
*
A.A. Fair - ''Bedrooms Have Windows'', ''Some Women Won't Wait'', ''You Can Die Laughing'', ''Top of the Heap'', ''Pass the Gravy'', ''Owls Don't Blink'', ''Bats Fly at Dusk'', ''Double or Quits'', ''Cats Prowl at Night'', ''Crows Can't Count'', ''Up for Grabs'' (
Cool and Lam Series)
*
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' ...
- ''
Red Harvest''
*
Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald was the main pseudonym used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (; December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983). He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featur ...
- ''
Blue City''
*
Richard Matheson - ''
I Am A Legend''
*
Ed McBain
Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino,(October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film ''Blackbo ...
- ''
The Mugger
''The Mugger'' is a 1958 American film noir crime film about a police psychiatrist who is attempting to catch a mysterious mugger that has been attacking women in his city, stealing their purses and slashing their left cheek. The film is a police ...
'', ''
Lady Killer''
*
Mickey Spillane - ''Day of the Guns'', ''Bloody Sunrise'', ''The Death Dealers'', ''The By-Pass Control''
References
1925 births
2000 deaths
Japanese writers
Japanese essayists
Japanese translators
20th-century translators
20th-century essayists
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