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Nobuo Ishimori

いしもり のぶお

Ishimori Nobuo

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1897-06-16 (Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan)
死没
1987-08-14 90歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Sapporo, Hokkaido → Aichi Prefecture (worked as a junior high teacher) → Kagawa Prefecture (worked as a junior high teacher) → Dairen (Dalian), Manchuria → Tokyo (Ministry of Education, editorial and teaching activities)

経歴

職業
children's literature author, language-education scholar, novelist, lyricist, textbook editor, university professor
活動期間
1926年〜1987年
所属
Showa Women's University (Professor), Ministry of Education (Library/Book supervision officer)

学歴

Tokyo Higher Normal School
Second Division, Japanese Language and Literature / Japanese Language and Literature
期間: ~1923
卒業年: 1923
国: Japan
Engaged in poetry and oral children's stories while enrolled

受賞歴

Shinchosha Literary Prize (3rd)
1939
対象作品: Sakidasu Shonen-gun
主催: Shinchosha
結果: winner
Mimei Literary Prize (1st)
1957
対象作品: The Whistle of Kotan
主催: Mimei Literary Prize Committee
結果: winner
Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award (5th)
1957
対象作品: The Whistle of Kotan
主催: Sankei Shimbun
結果: winner
Noma Children's Literature Prize (1st)
1962
対象作品: Ban's Souvenir Tales
主催: Noma Cultural Foundation
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Sakidasu Shonen-gun

1939年 Novel (children's/young adult)

A long novel set in Manchuria. Serialized in a newspaper and later published by Shinchosha; it became his breakthrough work.

Manchuriaportraits of youthprewar society

The Whistle of Kotan

1957年 Children's literature (novel)

A two-part novel featuring Ainu characters in Hokkaido. It became a bestseller and was adapted into a film.

Ainulocalitychildren and coming of age
映像化・舞台化
  • [film] The Whistle of Kotan / 成瀬巳喜男 (1959)

Ban's Souvenir Tales

1961年 Children's literature

A collection of tales for children; recipient of the Noma Children's Literature Prize.

children's literatureeveryday life and imagination

全著作

  • Beloved People: Stories for Boys and Girls (1926)
  • Manchuria Library (1934)
  • Sakidasu Shonen-gun (1939)
  • The Whistle of Kotan (1957)
  • Ban's Souvenir Tales (1961)
  • Collected Works of Nobuo Ishimori (15 vols., 1971)

翻案

  • The Whistle of Kotan (film adaptation, 1959)

作風・主題

文体
accessible narrative for childrenstrong sense of local coloreducational and moral elements
頻出モチーフ
nature and localitychild's perspectivedepictions of indigenous (Ainu) culture

評価・遺産

A writer who contributed to children's literature and Japanese language education from the prewar to postwar periods. Major works such as The Whistle of Kotan were widely read; film adaptations, monuments, and collected editions have sustained his legacy.

記念館・博物館

  • Hokkaido Museum of Literature (Nobuo Ishimori Collection) Hokkaido, Japan

関連学会

  • Japanese Association for Children's Literature (founding chair)

資料所蔵先

  • Hokkaido Museum of Literature — Nobuo Ishimori Collection

大衆文化への影響

  • Film adaptation of The Whistle of Kotan (1959)
  • Literary monument at Ishimori Literary Plaza near Moiwa in Sapporo

豆知識

  • His father was the poet Kazuo Ishimori, lyricist of 'We Love Hokkaido'.
  • He wrote lyrics for many school songs and anthems.
  • A 15-volume collected edition of his children's literature was published.