Naoki Sanjugo Award
1 appearances
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Edition 39 (1958) award
Eiji Shinba
しんば えいじ
Shinba Eiji
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1912-10-21 （Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan）
- Died
- 1999-02-20 age 86
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Kakegawa, Shizuoka (birthplace) → Manchukuo (worked in the Foreign Ministry) → Sendai (worked at Tohoku liaison office) → Tokyo (literary career)
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Writer
- Active Years
- 1948-1999
- Influenced By
- Soichiro Muraoka
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waseda University | Department of English | Department of English | — | — | Japan |
Waseda University
Department of English
/ Department of English
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Naoki Prize | Red Snow | — | — | Winner |
Naoki Prize
1958
Work:
Red Snow
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Red Snow
1958 NovelA novel portraying the chaos in Manchuria at the end of World War II; reflects the author's experience in Manchukuo and the perspective of repatriates.
warManchuriadefeathuman drama
Uzu, Fuchi, Nagare (Trilogy)
1956 Novel (trilogy)An early popular-fiction trilogy exploring human relationships and fate.
human relationshipsfatesociety
The Wall
1964 NovelA work themed around urban and personal barriers; one of the author's representative books and later reissued.
alienationurban lifehuman psychology
Shigi: Tokugawa Ieyasu
1963 History / Modern-language edition (translation)A modern-language edition/translation of his grandfather Soichiro Muraoka's 'Shigi'. Includes commentary on Tokugawa Ieyasu's origins and related controversial theories; reissued under variant titles.
historybiographical studyTokugawa Ieyasu
Translations
- Kawade Bunko edition (reissue/new edition)
Record of Eighty Years
1993 MemoirAn autobiographical memoir recounting the author's upbringing, career, and creative life.
autobiographyreminiscencecultural history
Bibliography
- Zao: The Reviving Woman
- Uzu, Fuchi, Nagare
- Red Snow
- The Tempter
- Woman's Desert
- Dry Lake
- Faces of Night and Day
- The Drifting Woman
- Days of Love
- Shigi: Tokugawa Ieyasu (modern-language edition)
- The Wall
- Flowers of Ennui
- Fishing Through the Four Seasons
- Stream, River and Sea Fishing
- River of Sorrow
- Ako Goes to Paris Alone
- Spring Heat Haze
- Ode to Angling
- Escape from the Extremes
- Faces of Heroes
- Naked Costume
- The Great Sunset
- Naked Forest
- The Great Dawn
- Standing in the Sunset
- The Fleshly Demon
- Gray Zone
- Woman of Flame: Hōjō Masako
- Ode to Angling, Continued
- Lament of the Restoration
- Soviet Forced Labor Camps
- The Day Manchukuo Collapsed
- Shigenobu Ōkuma: Spirit of Enterprise and Academic Independence
- Taisuke Itagaki: The Dream and Defeat of Liberal Rights
- Wives' Rondo
- Yukichi Fukuzawa: Biographies for Boys and Girls
- Run, Shinsaku!: The Chōshū Restoration Chronicle
- Winter Road
- Alternative Theory: Tokugawa Ieyasu
- The Love of Empress Tokuko
- Record of Eighty Years
- A New Account of Tokugawa Yoshimune
- Ode to River Fishing
- Zhuge Kongming Goes Forth
Translations by Author
- Shigi (modern-language edition/translation of Soichiro Muraoka's work)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- popular-fiction narrative styledescriptive and accessible proseparallel work in historical studies and biography
- Recurring Motifs
- war and defeatManchuria and repatriationportrayals of womenfishing and nature
Legacy
Eiji Shinba was an author active in both popular postwar fiction and historical/biographical writing. He won the Naoki Prize in 1958 for 'Red Snow'. Drawing on his experience in Manchukuo and his engagement with historical research (including modern-language editions of his grandfather Soichiro Muraoka's work), he produced numerous works on war, postwar repatriation, and biographies. He also published many books on fishing and nature, widely appreciated as accessible reading for general audiences.
Archives
- National Diet Library (authority / holdings)
- VIAF (identifier: 11192730)
- ISNI (identifier: 0000000081971693)
- WorldCat / OCLC (authority record)
Trivia
- Worked in the Foreign Ministry of Manchukuo; the experience influenced his writing.
- Won the Naoki Prize in 1958 for 'Red Snow'.
- His maternal grandfather was historian Soichiro Muraoka; Shinba produced a modern-language edition of Muraoka's 'Shigi'.
- Authored numerous books and essays on fishing.
- Graduated from Waseda University's Department of English.