Tachihara Masaaki

Tachihara Masaaki (Japanese立 原 正 秋; born January 6, 1926 in Ando, ​​Chosen, former Empire of Japan, South Korea today, † August 12 1980 in Kamakura, Japan ) was a Japanese writer.

Tachihara was in Ando during the time when Korea was a part of the Japanese Empire, the son korea -born parents. His Korean name was Kim Yun -kyu ( Kor. 김윤규 ,金 胤 奎). After his father's death he came mid-1930s he moved to Yokosuka. In Tokyo, he studied from 1945 law at Waseda University.

From the following year he also attended lectures in Japanese literature. With his first novel Bakushu he won a competition edited by Tanizaki Seiji literary magazine Bungei Kenkyūkai and decided to create a career as a writer. To a great extent he was impressed by the medieval Japanese culture, such as pottery, garden art and the Noh Theatre. It was said that Fūshikaden (风姿 花 伝), a standard work on the Noh theater of Zeami Motokiyo, had been a guide of his own literary creation. In 1966 he was awarded the Naoki Prize.

Works (selection)

• Bakushu (麦秋)
• Tanin no Jiyu (他人 の ​​自由), 1958
• Takigi Noh (薪 能)
• Tsurugi -ga- saki (剣ケ崎)
• Shiroi Keshi (白い 罌粟)
• Fuyu no Tabi (冬の旅)
• Natsu no Hikari (夏 の 光)
• Kinuta (きぬた)
• Fuyu no Katami ni (冬 の かたみ に)

Swell

• Kamakura City, Kamakura 's Literary Figures - Biography

• Author
• Literature (Japanese)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Novel, epic
• Japanese
• Born in 1926
• Died in 1980
• Man