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Toshiro Fujimoto

ふじもと としろう

Fujimoto Toshiro

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1941-01-01 （Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan）
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Residence History
Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan → Kyoto, Japan

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Physician
Active Years
2021-
Affiliations
Youkakai (former chair), Fujimoto Medical System (former chair), Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan (member)
Memberships
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan
Influenced By
Yoshio Aramaki, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
Nominations
'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and Psychopathology (Japan SF Review Award nominee, 4th, 2008), Scanner Darkly and Multiple Personality (Japan SF Review Award nominee, 5th, 2009)

Education

University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Degree: 医学博士
Country: Japan
Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine; holds an M.D./Ph.D. (University of Tokyo)

Awards

Keibundo Bookstore Historical Novel Bunko Award
2022
Work: The Female Doctor of Gion 'Yoshiya'
Category: 時代小説
Organization: Keibundo Bookstore
Result: 受賞
Japan SF Review Award — Special Jury Prize
2010
Work: 'The Man in the High Castle' — Uchronia and the I Ching
Organization: Japan SF Review Award Committee
Result: 受賞（選考委員特別賞）

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Female Doctor of Gion 'Yoshiya'

2021 Historical novel

A historical novel set in Kyoto's Gion district. Through the perspective of a female doctor, it depicts human relationships and medical practice.

MedicineHuman relationshipsKyotoHistory

The Female Doctor of Gion 'Yoshiya' — The Mother and Child Flute

2022 Historical novel

A follow-up to the previous work, focusing on the bond between mother and child and the lives of people in Gion, containing elements of a short-story collection.

FamilyTraditionRecovery

'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and Psychopathology

2008 Criticism/Essay

A critical essay linking Philip K. Dick's work with perspectives from psychiatry.

SF criticismPsychiatry

Bibliography

  • The Female Doctor of Gion 'Yoshiya' (Shogakukan Bunko)
  • The Female Doctor of Gion 'Yoshiya' — The Mother and Child Flute (Shogakukan Bunko)
  • 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and Psychopathology
  • A Scanner Darkly and Multiple Personality
  • 'The Man in the High Castle' — Uchronia and the I Ching
  • Surrealist Psychoanalysis — Bosch + Dalí + Magritte + Escher + Early Aramaki (essays)
  • The World of the 'Narrating Brain' — Reading Yoshio Aramaki from Deleuze/Guattari's Schizoanalysis
  • Nobuyoshi Araki and the Desire of Integration

Translations by Author

  • Stéphane Manfredi: 'Introduction to French SF'
  • Jean Galabert: 'Introduction to Henri Ey — Ey and Contemporary Psychiatric Thought'
  • Pierre Marchet: 'Mental Activity — Neuroscience and New Psychiatry'
  • Henri Ey: 'Schizophrenia'
  • Duchêne Didier-Jacques: 'History of Child Psychiatry'
  • Henri Ey: 'What Is Psychiatry? — A Reply to Anti-Psychiatry'

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Blends traditional historical-novel style with contemporary perspectivesPrecise descriptions focusing on medical and psychiatric subjects
Recurring Motifs
Medical settingsBoundaries of the mindKyoto/Gion landscapes

Legacy

A rare writer who debuted as a novelist late in life with a rich background as a physician. He brings medical and psychiatric knowledge into historical fiction and has contributed to SF criticism.

Academic Societies

  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan

Trivia

  • Born in 1941 and made his novelist debut relatively late (around age 80 in 2021).
  • Ran a hospital in Miyakonojo as a practicing physician before retirement.