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Masuji Ibuse (井伏 鱒二, Ibuse Masuji, 15 February 1898 – 10 July 1993) was a Japanese author. His novel Black Rain, about the bombing of Hiroshima, was awarded the Noma Prize and the Order of Cultural Merit.
Ibuse Masuji (born Feb. 15, 1898, Kamo, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan—died July 10, 1993, Tokyo) was a Japanese novelist noted for sharp but sympathetic short portraits of the foibles of ordinary people.
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Masuji Ibuse ( 井伏 鱒二) was a Japanese novelist. At Waseda University, Ibuse was greatly influenced by the works of Shakespeare and Basho; he was also an avid reader of French fiction and poetry. Ibuse went as far as to pawn a watch to try to understand the necessities of writers.
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Aug 3, 2023 · Ibuse Masuji’s Black Rain, which won the prestigious Noma Literary Prize after its publication in 1965, epitomises atomic bomb literature. It is now considered a classic of modern Japanese...
Oct 9, 2022 · Comparable, at least on the surface, with American author John Hersey’s Hiroshima (1946), Black Rain by Japanese author Masuji Ibuse (1898–1993) deals with the events of August 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Black Rain (黒い雨, Kuroi Ame) is a novel by Japanese author Masuji Ibuse. Ibuse began serializing Black Rain in the magazine Shincho in January 1965. The novel is based on historical records of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Sep 18, 2015 · Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering ...
