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EnJoe Toh

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EnJoeToh

ペンネーム: EnJoe Toh（Pen name used for published works (legal name not disclosed)）

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1972-09-15 （Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan）
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Sapporo (place of birth) → Tokyo (former residence) → Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan (current residence)

経歴

職業
Novelist, Screenwriter, Translator
活動期間
2007年〜
所属
Hokkaido University (worked as postdoctoral researcher), Kyoto University (worked as postdoctoral researcher), University of Tokyo (worked as postdoctoral researcher), Singram Co., Ltd. (former web engineer)
所属団体
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan
影響を受けた人物
Kobo Abe, Project Itoh (Keikaku Ito), Kunihiko Kaneko (academic advisor)
ノミネート
Philip K. Dick Award (nominee, 2013)

学歴

Tohoku University
Faculty of Science / Department of Physics
期間: 1991-1995
卒業年: 1995
国: Japan
Undergraduate degree; member of the SF research circle while a student
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
Interdisciplinary Studies
学位: 博士（学術）
期間: 1995-2000
卒業年: 2000
国: Japan
Earned a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy in academic field)

受賞歴

Bungakukai Newcomers' Prize
2007
対象作品: Of the Baseball (Obu za Baseball)
主催: Bungakukai (literary magazine)
結果: 受賞
Noma New Writers' Prize
2010
対象作品: Uyuu-shitan (U-youshi-tan)
主催: Noma Cultural Foundation
結果: 受賞
Waseda University Tsubouchi Shoyo Encouragement Prize
2011
対象作品: This Is a Pen
主催: Waseda University
結果: 受賞
Akutagawa Prize
2012
対象作品: The Clown's Butterfly
主催: Akutagawa Prize Selection Committee
結果: 受賞
Sakuya kono hana Prize
2012
対象作品: Literary achievements
主催: Osaka City (Sakuya kono hana Prize)
結果: 受賞
Nihon SF Taisho (Japan SF Grand Prize)
2012
対象作品: The Empire of Corpses (co-authored with Project Itoh)
主催: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan
結果: 特別賞
Seiun Award (Best Japanese Long Story)
2012
対象作品: The Empire of Corpses (co-authored with Project Itoh)
主催: The Federation of Science Fiction Fan Groups of Japan
結果: 受賞
Philip K. Dick Award (special citation, runner-up)
2014
対象作品: Self-Reference ENGINE (English translation)
主催: Philip K. Dick Award Committee
結果: 次点（特別賞）
Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize
2017
対象作品: Moji-uzu (Character Vortex)
主催: Kawabata Prize Selection Committee
結果: 受賞
Japan SF Grand Prize
2019
対象作品: Moji-uzu (Character Vortex)
主催: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan
結果: 受賞
Yomiuri Literature Prize (Novel)
2025
対象作品: Code Buddha: A Mechanical Buddhism Genealogy
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Self-Reference ENGINE

2007年 Science fiction / Avant-garde

A collection of interlinked short stories and novellas featuring meta-fictional and mathematical ideas; focuses on story-generation and recursive structures.

MetafictionRecursionTechnology and narrative
翻訳
  • English translation: Terry Gallagher

Of the Baseball

2008年 Avant-garde fiction / Novel

Originally published in Bungakukai; uses notes and unusual devices to create an extended, avant-garde narrative.

AnnotationsExperimental styleMeta-fiction

The Clown's Butterfly

2012年 Literary fiction / Novel

A linked short-story/novella work with experimental structure; won the 2012 Akutagawa Prize.

Avant-garde structureIdentityPlay with language

The Empire of Corpses

2012年 Science fiction / Alternate history

Co-authored with Project Itoh, completing an unfinished manuscript; an alternate-history SF about techniques to reanimate the dead.

Death and resurrectionScience and technologyEthics

Moji-uzu (Character Vortex)

2018年 Speculative fiction / Literary

An ambitious novel using language and characters as motifs; awarded the Kawabata Prize and the Japan SF Grand Prize.

LanguageSignsTechnology

Code Buddha: A Mechanical Buddhism Genealogy

2024年 Novel / Speculative

A novel themed around machines and Buddhist thought; won the 2025 Yomiuri Literature Prize (Novel).

BuddhismMechanizationIntellectual history

全著作

  • Self-Reference ENGINE (2007)
  • Of the Baseball (2008)
  • Uyuu-shitan (2009)
  • The Clown's Butterfly (2012)
  • The Empire of Corpses (2012, co-authored with Project Itoh)
  • Moji-uzu (2018)
  • Code Buddha (2024)

翻案

  • Space☆Dandy (contributed scripts)
  • Godzilla S.P. Singular Point (series composition, SF consulting, scripts)

作家による翻訳

  • Charles Yu translation: SF-ish Ways to Live Safely in the Universe (Japanese translation by EnJoe)
  • Kurt Vonnegut: If This Doesn't Work, To the Young — Graduation Speeches (translation)
  • Koizumi Yakumo: Kaidan (translated, 2022)

作品の翻訳

  • Self-Reference ENGINE (English translation by Terry Gallagher)
  • Various short stories translated into English and included in anthologies

作風・主題

文体
Mathematical, experimental, avant-garde proseUses annotations and layout tricks as experimental devices
頻出モチーフ
AnnotationsMetafictionScientific and technological concepts

評価・遺産

A writer acclaimed in both contemporary Japanese literature and science fiction for his mathematical and experimental style. Winner of major literary and SF awards; influential in translation and anime circles.

関連学会

  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan

資料所蔵先

  • National Diet Library (holds works and related materials)

大衆文化への影響

  • Contributions to anime scripts and series composition (Space☆Dandy, Godzilla S.P)

引用

  • The field of physics I studied is one where ideas are expressed as papers. Of the ideas I came up with during research, those that couldn't be expanded into papers became novels, it seems.
    出典: Interview (Nikkei Entertainment! and others) (2008年)

豆知識

  • Legal name not publicly disclosed
  • Married to horror writer Tanabe Seiwa (married in 2010)
  • Often wears a frog pin inspired by his wife's pen name
  • Official romanization: EnJoeToh
  • X (formerly Twitter) accounts: @EnJoeToh / @EnJoe140