Yoshimi Usui
Usui Yoshimi (Jap.臼 井 吉 见; born June 17, 1905 in Mita (now Azumino ), Nagano prefecture, † 22 July 1987) was a Japanese writer, critic and editor. He was a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts since 1975. His son is the filmmaker Usui Takase.
Life
Usui was born as the second son in Nagano Prefecture. He attended the local middle and high school Matsumoto. Among his classmates in high school Furuta Akira (1906-1973), founder of the bookstore Chikuma, and Kappei Matsumoto (1905-1995), actor and theater critic. After that, he joined the Imperial University of Tokyo from a study of Japanese literature. He first worked as a teacher until he magazine Tembo (展望) was established in 1946 Editor in Chief. In 1964 he began his major work Azumino, he completed a decade later in 1974 and for which he won the Tanizaki - Jun'ichirô price.
When he his work Jiko no Tenmatsu (about: " Details of the accident " ), 1977, in which he dealt with the backgrounds of Kawabata's lonely youth to suicide in Tembo, he caught himself the protest of Kawabata's family, the in civil proceedings for an injunction against the publication strained.