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Yasushi Inoue (井上靖, Inoue Yasushi, May 6, 1907 – January 29, 1991) was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, noted for his historical and autobiographical fiction. His most acclaimed works include The Bullfight ( Tōgyū, 1949), The Roof Tile of Tempyō ( Tenpyō no iraka, 1957) and Tun-huang ( Tonkō, 1959). [1] Biography.
May 2, 2024 · Inoue Yasushi was a Japanese novelist noted for his historical fiction, notably Tempyō no iraka (1957; The Roof Tile of Tempyō), which depicts the drama of 8th-century Japanese monks traveling to China and bringing back Buddhist texts and other artifacts to Japan.
Yasushi Inoue. Yasushi Inoue (井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and ...
Apr 3, 2015 · Yasushi Inoue has never enjoyed such international popularity, but his enormous oeuvre — begun in midcentury and only in midlife, after a successful career as a newspaperman — made him one of...
The Hunting Gun a.k.a. Shotgun (Japanese: 猟銃, Hepburn: Ryōjū) is a Japanese novella by Yasushi Inoue first published in 1949. Spanning in time between the mid 1930s and late 1940s, it tells the story of a love affair between a married man and his wife's cousin, recounted through three long letters.
Yasushi Inoue (1907-1991) was born in Hokkaido. After studying Philosophy at Kyoto University, he started working at the Mainichi newspapers. In 1950, he won the 22nd Akutagawa Prize for Togyu (The Bullfight).
Born in 1907, Yasushi Inoue worked as a journalist and literary editor for many years, only beginning his prolific career as an author in 1949 with Bullfight. He went on to publish 50 novels and 150 short stories, both historical and contemporary, his work making him one of Japan’s major literary figures.
A melancholic wisdom shapes these contrasting volumes by the remarkable Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue (1907-91), such is whose empathy at times that he transforms the study of human nature into...
Jan 14, 2017 · Yasushi Inoue's debut novel, 'The Hunting Gun,' was published in 1949, a year before he won the Akutagawa Prize for his second novel, 'The Bullfight.'. The story — which adopts a similar ...
Feb 2, 1991 · Yasushi Inoue, a Japanese novelist known mainly for his historical fiction, died on Tuesday. He was 83 years old. The cause of death was pneumonia.
