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Koji Aoyama

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Aoyama Koji

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1913-02-23 （Kobe, Japan）
死没
2008-10-29 95歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Kobe, Japan → Tokyo, Japan

経歴

職業
novelist, writer
活動期間
1935年〜2006年
所属
Japan Writers' Association
所属団体
Japan Writers' Association
影響を受けた人物
Sakunosuke Oda, Osamu Dazai
ノミネート
Naoki Prize nominee, 1956 (Hō no Soto e), Naoki Prize nominee, ca. 1960 (Shura no Hito), Naoki Prize nominee, 1976 (Chikubushima Shinjū)

学歴

Third High School (old system)
国: Japan
Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo)
Faculty of Letters, Art History / Art History
国: Japan
Co-founded the literary magazine 'Umikaze' while enrolled

受賞歴

Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Prize
1980
対象作品: The Structure of the Struggle
主催: Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize
2003
対象作品: Wagaimoko Kanashi
主催: Kawabata Yasunari Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette (4th Class)
1998
主催: Government of Japan
結果: 受章
Shosetsu Shincho Prize
1965
対象作品: Shura no Hito
主催: Shinchosha
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Structure of the Struggle

1979年 non-fiction novel

A long non-fiction novel based on the Tsurumi disturbance, depicting conflicts among civil engineering contractors in the late Taisho period.

historylabor conflictstruggle

Wagaimoko Kanashi

2003年 I-novel (autobiographical fiction)

A late-life I-novel exploring the author's inner life, family and memories; winner of the Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize.

memoryold agefamily

Shura no Hito

1965年 yakuza novel

A novel depicting the world of yakuza; one of his representative works marking a shift toward yakuza themes after the war.

yakuzaviolenceduty and human feelings

Out of the Law

1956年 I-novel / social novel

A postwar I-novel style work; one of the stories that made him a Naoki Prize candidate in 1956.

law and orderindividual anguish

全著作

  • Kendan
  • Pure Separation
  • Night Visitor
  • People by the Sea
  • Betting Youth: A Novel about Sakunosuke Oda
  • Prime of Womanhood
  • Out of the Law
  • Son of Oni Tatsu
  • Wanted
  • Murder Contract
  • The Sun Rises in the Streets
  • Black Japanese
  • Scenes of Struggle
  • Shura no Hito
  • Ethics of Beasts
  • The World of the Yakuza
  • Beastly Devotion
  • Bakumatsu Sword Chivalry
  • Face Cutting
  • Endless Gamble
  • A Life of Fights: Naval Yokosuka Prison
  • A Life of Fights: Wandering the Remnant Streets
  • Chikubushima Double Suicide
  • Circus Drifter
  • The Card Peddler
  • Fukuhara Double Suicide
  • The Structure of the Struggle
  • I'm a Gambler
  • Our Mad Mentor
  • Voice of the Mother Sea
  • My Literary Wanderings
  • Sea Scenery at Dusk
  • When People Leave
  • The Beautiful Woman
  • The Nostalgic Burai School
  • O Beauty Eternal: Keats, My Genius
  • The Hourglass Speaks: An 87-Year-Old Writer's 20th Century À La Carte
  • The Era of the Pure-Blooded Burai School: Focusing on Sakunosuke Oda and Osamu Dazai
  • Wagaimoko Kanashi
  • The Person Who Doesn't Eat

作風・主題

文体
introspective I-novel styledirect depiction of yakuza life
頻出モチーフ
yakuza worldmemory and old ageconflict and duty

評価・遺産

A novelist active from the prewar to postwar periods, he moved from I‑novel roots to yakuza fiction and non‑fiction, known for a wide range of works and for stirring public debate with awards late in life.

関連学会

  • Japan Writers' Association

豆知識

  • Born in Kobe in 1913.
  • Co‑founded the literary magazine 'Umikaze' with Sakunosuke Oda while a student.
  • Multiple Naoki Prize nominations but did not win the Naoki Prize.
  • Won the Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Prize in 1980 for 'The Structure of the Struggle'.
  • Awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (4th class) in 1998 and won the Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize in 2003.