Shishi Bunroku

Shishi Bunroku (Japanese狮子 文 六, real name: Iwata Toyoo (岩田 豊 雄), born July 1, 1893 in Yokohama, † 13 December 1969) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Shishi, who headed the Bungakuza Theatre in Tokyo, was known as a writer of humorous and autobiographical novels, the great popularity enjoyed and several of which have been filmed. His works were published from the 1930s to 1960s, mostly first as serials in newspapers and magazines. Jiyu Gakko ( "The School of Freedom" ), a representation of life in Japan after the Second World War, was published in 1950 in the magazine Asahi Shimbun, before they appeared in 1951 as a book. The novel was filmed several times a bestseller in Japan in the 1950s and was published in 2006 in English and French translation. 1961 Shishi was awarded the Japanese Culture Award.

Swell

• University of Michigan - Center for Japanese Studies Publications: School of Freedom
• Cambridge Journals, " Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ", pp. 600 f
• La Litterature Japonaise - Shishi Bunroku

• Author
• Literature (Japanese)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Novel, epic
• Japanese
• Born in 1893
• Died in 1969
• Man
• Pseudonym
• Person with special cultural merits