![Inagaki Taruho](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Inagaki_Taruho.JPG)
was a Japanese writer.
Inagaki was born in
Osaka
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, moved to
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*Akashi (surname)
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*Akashi, Hyōgo
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in
Hyōgo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, an ...
while he was in elementary school, and spent much of his childhood in
Kōbe
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. He graduated from
Kwansei Gakuin Junior High School. In 1923 he published ''
One Thousand and One Second Stories (Issen ichibyō monogatari),'' and by 1926 he was counted among members of the short-lived
Shinkankakuha group of writers. In 1968 he won the first annual Japan Literature Grand Prize for , an essay on "aesthetic eroticism", where he divides stories into A (anal), V (vaginal), P (penile) and K (clitoral) varieties and "describe
the historical, psychological, and metaphysical ramifications of the love of beautiful boys in an eclectic blend of ideas culled from history, Freudianism, pop psychology, and existentialism."
Inagaki's works often dealt with themes including
flight
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,
astronomical object
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s, and erotic and romantic relationships among beautiful adolescent boys. His stories on the latter topic, and his essays in ''Shōnen'ai no Bigaku'', were an influence on early writers of the
yaoi
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genre such as
Keiko Takemiya
is a Japanese manga artist and the former president of Kyoto Seika University.
Career
Keiko Takemiya (or Takemiya Keiko) is included in the Year 24 Group, a term coined by academics and critics to refer to a group of female authors in the ea ...
.
References
1900 births
1977 deaths
Japanese male short story writers
Writers from Hyōgo Prefecture
Writers from Osaka
20th-century Japanese novelists
20th-century Japanese short story writers
20th-century Japanese male writers
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