Yasuko Harada - Japanese Literary Awards

プロフィール

性別: 女性
生誕: 1928-01-12 （Tokyo Prefecture, Japan）
死没: 2009-10-20 （Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan） 81歳
国籍: Japan
言語: Japanese
居住地歴: Tokyo (birth) → Kushiro, Hokkaido (grew up) → Sapporo, Hokkaido (later life)

経歴

職業: Novelist
活動期間: 1954年〜2009年
所属: Higashi Hokkaido Newspaper (later Kushiro Shimbun)
影響を与えた人物: Shino Sakuragi

学歴

学校	学部	学科	学位	期間	国
Kushiro Municipal Girls' High School (now Hokkaido Kushiro Konan High School)	—	—	—	—	Japan

Kushiro Municipal Girls' High School (now Hokkaido Kushiro Konan High School)

国: Japan

After graduating from the girls' high school, she worked for the Higashi Hokkaido Newspaper.

受賞歴

年	賞名	対象作品	部門	主催	結果
1957	Joryu Bungakusha Prize (Women's Literary Prize)	Banka (Requiem)	—	Joryu Bungakusha Prize Committee	受賞
1999	Joryu Bungaku (Women's Literary Award)	Rourui (Wax Tears)	—	Women's Literary Award Committee	受賞
2003	Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize	Umi-giri (Sea Mist)	—	Yoshikawa Eiji Prize Committee	受賞
2003	Hokkaido Cultural Award	—	—	Hokkaido Prefecture	受賞
2003	Hokkaido Shimbun Cultural Prize	—	—	Hokkaido Shimbun	受賞
1999	Shogi Pen Club Grand Prize (Match-Report category)	Report on the Oza (shogi) match	観戦記部門	Shogi Pen Club	受賞

Joryu Bungakusha Prize (Women's Literary Prize)

1957

対象作品: Banka (Requiem)

主催: Joryu Bungakusha Prize Committee

結果: 受賞

Joryu Bungaku (Women's Literary Award)

1999

対象作品: Rourui (Wax Tears)

主催: Women's Literary Award Committee

結果: 受賞

Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize

2003

対象作品: Umi-giri (Sea Mist)

主催: Yoshikawa Eiji Prize Committee

結果: 受賞

Hokkaido Cultural Award

2003

主催: Hokkaido Prefecture

結果: 受賞

Hokkaido Shimbun Cultural Prize

2003

主催: Hokkaido Shimbun

結果: 受賞

Shogi Pen Club Grand Prize (Match-Report category)

1999

対象作品: Report on the Oza (shogi) match

部門: 観戦記部門

主催: Shogi Pen Club

結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

Women's Literary Award 1回登壇

第38回（1999年） award

Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Award 1回登壇

第37回（2003年） award

作品

代表作

Banka (Requiem)

1956年 Novel

A major novel set in Kushiro; upon publication it became a bestseller and was adapted for film.

Hokkaido landscapeloss and renewalfemale psychology

映像化・舞台化

[Film] Banka / 五所平之助 (1957)
[Film] Banka / 河崎義祐 (1976)

翻訳

Translated into English and other languages

Sabita no Kioku (Memory of Sabita)

1954年 Novel

Her debut work; drew attention when submitted to a Shincho magazine prize and helped launch her career.

Rourui (Wax Tears)

1999年 Novel

One of her later notable works, delicately portraying female psychology. Winner of the 38th Women's Literary Award.

female psychologyinner conflict

Umi-giri (Sea Mist)

2002年 Novel

A novel set against Hokkaido's sea and fishing villages depicting human relationships. Winner of the 37th Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize.

seacommunity and human relations

Mangetsu (Mr. Moonlight)

1984年 Novel

A mid-career work adapted into the film 'Mangetsu MR.MOONLIGHT' in 1991.

映像化・舞台化

[Film] Mangetsu MR.MOONLIGHT / 大森一樹 (1991)

全著作

Banka (Requiem)
Sabita no Kioku (Memory of Sabita)
Haien (Abandoned Garden)
Rinsho (Round Chant)
Itazura (Prank)
Yameru Oka (Ailing Hill)
Satsujinsha (The Murderer)
Bokyo (Homesickness)
Kita no Hayashi (Northern Woods)
Kitaguni-sho (Selections of the North)
Niji (Rainbow)
Nichiyobi no Shiroi Kumo (Sunday's White Cloud)
Sunao na Yogisha (The Honest Suspect)
Tooi Mori (Distant Forest)
Koibitotachi (Lovers)
Tori no Kuru Niwa (The Garden Where Birds Come)
Kaze no Toride (Fortress of Wind)
Mangetsu (Mr. Moonlight)
Hoshi no Misaki (Cape of Stars)
Easter no Tamago (Easter Egg)
Madobe no Neko (Cat by the Window)
Hanare-goma Asobi-goma (Essays on Horse and Piece - shogi essays)
Seibo no Kagami (Mirror of the Holy Mother)
Rourui (Wax Tears)
Chichi no Shakunage (Father's Rhododendron)
Umi-giri (Sea Mist)

翻案

'Banka' - film (1957, dir. Heinosuke Gosho) and later adaptations
'Shiroi Akuma' - film (1958) (original: short story 'Night's Departure')
'Mangetsu' - film 'Mangetsu MR.MOONLIGHT' (1991, dir. Kazuki Omori)
Television dramatizations (e.g. 'Banka', 'Bokyo', 'Watashi wa Waretai')

作品の翻訳

'Banka' - translated into English and other languages

作風・主題

文体: Lyrical, evocative proseDelicate depiction of Hokkaido's landscape and human relationships
頻出モチーフ: sea, mist, northern naturefemale psychology and lossnostalgia

健康

Pneumonia

2009年10月

Hospitalized and died from pneumonia

評価・遺産

Yasuko Harada was a novelist based in Hokkaido, best known for works such as 'Banka'. Her novels, which often draw on regional landscapes and explore female psychology and loss, have been widely adapted and translated, leaving a lasting influence.

記念館・博物館

Kushiro Literature Museum (hosted exhibition on Yasuko Harada) Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan

資料所蔵先

Materials held at the Hokkaido Literature Museum
Related holdings at Kushiro City Library

大衆文化への影響

Film adaptations of 'Banka' (1957, 1976)
Film 'Mangetsu MR.MOONLIGHT' (1991)

豆知識

Her legal name was Yasuko Sasaki (maiden name Harada).
Hobbies included horse racing and shogi; she won the Shogi Pen Club Grand Prize for a match report.
She continued to write while living in Hokkaido through her later years.