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Fuji Masaharu

ふじ まさはる

Fuji Masaharu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1913-10-30 (Yamashiro-dani Village, Miyoshi District, Tokushima Prefecture (now Miyoshi City), Japan)
Died
1987-07-15 (Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan) age 73
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Residence History
Yamashiro-dani Village, Miyoshi District, Tokushima Prefecture (now Miyoshi City), Japan → Kobe, Japan → Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan → Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Poet, Printmaker
Active Years
1932-1987
Influenced By
Shizuo Ito, Takeo Kuwabara, Ryotaro Shiba
Nominations
Akutagawa Prize nominee (Haisou), Akutagawa Prize nominee (Choyourojin Retsuden), Naoki Prize (35th) nominee (Study and Preface in the Imperial Army)

Education

Third High School (old system)
Science Course A
Period: 1931-1935
Year of Graduation: 1935
Country: Japan
Did not graduate

Awards

Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
1968
Work: Katsura Shundaji
Organization: Mainichi Shimbun
Result: Winner
Osaka Arts Award
1971
Organization: Osaka Prefecture
Result: Winner
Kansai Grand Poetry Immortals Award
1987
Organization: Kansai Grand Prize Committee
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Forged Biography of Yasuko Kusaka

1956 Biography

Katsura Shundaji

1967 Biography

Song of the Dandelion

1961 Historical novel
Adaptations
  • [Film] O-hime / 勅使河原宏 (1992)

Bibliography

  • The Forged Biography of Yasuko Kusaka
  • Keirin
  • Wandering Soul
  • Song of the Dandelion
  • Study and Preface in the Imperial Army
  • You Are Me
  • Fake Sea Pirate Songs: Essays
  • Katsura Shundaji
  • All-Round Failure: Fuji Masaharu Essay Collection
  • Record of Passing Away
  • Lightness of the Dead

Adaptations

  • O-hime (film)

Legacy

A representative figure in postwar Japanese literature and known for his research on Kansai performing arts.

Museums

  • Fuji Masaharu Memorial Museum Hatata-cho, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan Opened in 1992

Archives

  • Ibaraki City Central Library

In Popular Culture

  • Instrumental in the founding of the Beheiren peace movement