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Otohiko Kaga

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Kaga Otohiko

ペンネーム: Sadataka Kogi（Legal name; used for academic publications and translations in psychiatry/criminal psychology）

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性別
男性
生誕
1929-04-22 （Mita, Shiba, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan）
死没
2023-01-12 93歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
宗教
Catholicism (Roman Catholic) 1987年受洗
居住地歴
Nishi-Ōkubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo → Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo (workplace) → Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture (villa) → France (study/work at the University of Paris / Sainte-Anne Hospital)

経歴

職業
Novelist, Physician, Psychiatrist, Professor, Writer
活動期間
1967年〜2023年
所属
University of Tokyo (assistant; medical technical officer etc.), Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Associate Professor), Sophia University (Professor, Faculty of Letters), Japan Art Academy, Japan PEN Club, Karuizawa Kogen Bunko (Director)
所属団体
Member, Japan Art Academy, Japan PEN Club (served as director and vice president), Japan Writers' Association (board member)
影響を受けた人物
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kunio Tsuji, Shūsaku Endō
ノミネート
Akutagawa Prize nominee (short story 'Kusabira-tan')

学歴

University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine / Department of Medicine
学位: 医学士
期間: 1949–1953
卒業年: 1953
国: Japan
Undergraduate graduation
University of Tokyo (Graduate School, Medicine)
Graduate school (medicine) / Psychiatry / Criminal psychology
学位: 医学博士
期間: 1953–1960
卒業年: 1960
国: Japan
Doctoral thesis on the criminological and psychopathological study of death-row and life-term prisoners in Japan
University of Paris (Sainte-Anne Hospital / Saint-Venant Hospital)
Psychiatry (clinical training)
期間: 1957–1960
国: France
Study abroad and clinical work

受賞歴

Arts Encouragement Prize (Newcomer)
1968
対象作品: Flanders' Winter
主催: Agency for Cultural Affairs
結果: 受賞
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize
1973
対象作品: Summer That Does Not Return
主催: Tanizaki Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Japan Literary Award
1979
対象作品: The Sentence
主催: Japan Literary Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Ōbutsu Jirō Prize
1986
対象作品: The Marsh
主催: Ōbutsu Jirō Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Arts Encouragement Prize (Minister of Education Award)
1998
対象作品: Eternal City
主催: Agency for Cultural Affairs
結果: 受賞
Japan Art Academy Award
1999
対象作品: Takayama Ukon
主催: Japan Art Academy
結果: 受賞
Ihara Saikaku Prize (4th)
1999
対象作品: Takayama Ukon
主催: Ihara Saikaku Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays
2005
主催: Government of Japan
結果: 叙勲
Bunkyo City Honorary Citizen Award
2007
主催: Bunkyo City
結果: 受賞
Person of Cultural Merit
2011
主催: Government of Japan
結果: 顕彰
Mainichi Publishing Culture Award (Special Prize)
2012
対象作品: City of Clouds (5 volumes)
主催: Mainichi Newspapers
結果: 受賞
Historical-era Writers' Club Award (Special Merit)
2016
主催: Historical-era Writers' Club
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Flanders' Winter

1967年 Novel

Kaga's debut long novel. Set partly in foreign landscapes, it explores postwar loneliness and human relationships and served as an early sign of his long-form writing.

LonelinessPostwar JapanForeign/alienation
翻訳
  • Flanders' Winter (translation information not available)

Summer That Does Not Return

1973年 Novel

A long novel addressing the psychology and memories of the postwar generation; winner of the Tanizaki Prize and a work that established Kaga's literary reputation.

MemoryPostwarFamily and human relationships
翻訳
  • Summer That Does Not Return (no translation information)

Declaration / The Sentence

1979年 Novel

One of his representative works depicting the suffering of death-row inmates from the viewpoint of a psychiatrist; it examines the ethics of capital punishment and the inner life of the condemned.

Capital punishmentLife and deathEthicsPsychiatry
翻訳
  • The Sentence / Declaration (no translation information)

Riding the East Wind

1982年 Novel

A work that treats history and human fate; it has been translated into English and adapted as a manga.

HistoryFateHuman drama
映像化・舞台化
  • [Manga] Riding the East Wind (manga adaptation) / 松本零士 (1991)
翻訳
  • Riding the East Wind — English translation by Hideo Levi (Kodansha International, 1999)

The Marsh

1985年 Novel

A long novel about the tensions between nature and humans, memory and guilt; winner of the Ōbutsu Jirō Prize.

NatureGuiltMemory

City of Clouds (5 volumes)

2002年 Long-form series

A long multi-volume series written over many years; a major work taking a broad view of history and society. It received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award (special prize).

HistorySocietyReligion and culture

全著作

  • Flanders' Winter (1967)
  • Wind and the Dead (1969)
  • Literature and Madness (1971)
  • Summer That Does Not Return (1973)
  • The Sentence (1979)
  • Riding the East Wind (1982)
  • The Marsh (1985)
  • Eternal City (1997)
  • Takayama Ukon (1999)
  • City of Clouds (Vol.1–5, 2002–2012)
  • Skater Waltz (1987)
  • Autobiography of Otohiko Kaga (2013)

翻案

  • Riding the East Wind — Manga adaptation by Leiji Matsumoto (1991)

作家による翻訳

  • Henri Baruk, 'The Treatment of Psychoses' (translated by Sadataka Kogi / O. Koga, 1956)
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 'Phenomenology of Perception' (translated by Yoshirō Takeuchi & Sadataka Kogi, 1967)

作品の翻訳

  • Riding the East Wind — English translation (Kodansha International, 1999)
  • Takayama Ukon — German translation 'Kreuz und Schwert' (Be.bra Verlag, 2006)

作風・主題

文体
Psychiatric and psychological depth in characterizationNarration that links history and individual livesCalm, insightful narrative voice
頻出モチーフ
Life and deathGuilt and atonementMemory and the shadow of the pastReligion and faith (notably Catholicism)

評価・遺産

As a psychiatrist and novelist, he drew on clinical knowledge to explore themes of death, ethics, and memory. He bridged literature and psychiatry and influenced public debate on issues such as capital punishment and dignified death.

記念館・博物館

  • Mori Ōgai Memorial Museum (Honorary Director)
  • Karuizawa Kogen Bunko (Director) Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

関連学会

  • Japan Art Academy
  • Japan Writers' Association
  • Japan PEN Club

資料所蔵先

  • Diary preserved in his Hongo workplace (1949–2021), held by the family; portions reported by the press

大衆文化への影響

  • TV appearances such as NHK's 'Kokoro no Jidai' featuring interviews and testimony
  • Manga adaptation of 'Riding the East Wind' (Leiji Matsumoto)

引用

  • Whenever I get stuck writing, I always come here. Then, strangely, I suddenly become able to write.
    出典: Karuizawa Web (interview) (2016年)

豆知識

  • Legal name: Sadataka Kogi; he used his legal name for some academic works and translations.
  • Baptized into the Catholic Church at about age 58 (around 1987) with his wife.
  • Longtime hobbyist of figure skating; he reportedly skated before writing.
  • A diary kept at his Hongo workplace from 1949 to 2021 was reported to remain with the family.
  • His daughter is Maho Kaga (a shopping navigator for QVC Japan).