Natsume Sōseki Prize
1回登壇
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第1回（1947年） nominee
Shizue Masugi
ますぎ しずえ
Masugi Shizue
プロフィール
- 性別
- 女性
- 生誕
- 1901-10-03 （Tōnka Village, Ina District, Fukui Prefecture (now Fukui City), Japan）
- 死没
- 1955-06-29 （Koishikawa, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo University Hospital, Koishikawa branch)） 53歳
- 国籍
- Japan
- 言語
- Japanese
- 宗教
- Christianity 1955年受洗
- 居住地歴
- Taichung, Taiwan → Osaka, Japan → Tokyo (Kojimachi, Kanda, Koishikawa, etc.), Japan → Tainan, Taiwan (visited/stayed in 1939)
経歴
- 職業
- novelist, nurse, journalist
- 活動期間
- 1927年〜1955年
- 所属
- Osaka Mainichi Shimbun (reporter), Yomiuri Shimbun (personal-advice columnist), Magazine 'Kagami' (publisher/editor, short-lived)
- 影響を受けた人物
- Saneatsu Mushakoji, Yō Masaoka, Chihei Nakamura, Kan Kikuchi
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taichung High Girls' School (dropped out) | — | — | — | — | Taiwan (then part of Japan) |
| Nursing Training School, Taichung Hospital (Taiwan Governor-General's Office) | — | Nursing | — | 1914-1916 | Taiwan (then part of Japan) |
Taichung High Girls' School (dropped out)
国:
Taiwan (then part of Japan)
Dropped out
Nursing Training School, Taichung Hospital (Taiwan Governor-General's Office)
Nursing
期間:
1914-1916
卒業年:
1916
国:
Taiwan (then part of Japan)
Graduated in 1916 from the nursing training school and worked at Taichung Hospital
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
The Stationmaster's Young Wife
1927年 short storyPublished in a magazine led by Saneatsu Mushakoji; a short story focusing on a young stationmaster's wife, portraying delicate tensions in love and interpersonal relationships.
lovefemale psychology
Heart of a Small Fish
1938年 novelA principal early work with autobiographical elements based on the author's romantic experiences and position within the literary world.
autobiographical elementsfemale passion
The Woman Embracing Her Zōri
1939年 novella/novelCenters on the complex emotions of a woman; emotionally depicts the conflicts faced by women in the prewar period.
women's conflictssociety vs. individual
Beautiful Person
1948年 short fiction / novelOne of her postwar works, dealing with the discrepancy between appearance and inner life and questions of how women live.
appearance vs. inner selfwomen's ways of living
全著作
- Heart of a Small Fish (1938)
- The Woman Embracing Her Zōri (1939)
- Chick / Young Bird (1939)
- Happiness Thereafter (1940)
- Manyo Maiden (1940)
- Gate of Affection (1940; republished 1948)
- A Tragic Princess: Historical Tale (1940)
- Feathers That Cannot Fly (1940)
- A Message (1941)
- Southern Travelogue (1941)
- Sunlit and Fresh (1941)
- Hymn of Victory (1942)
- Three Oaths (1942)
- After Rokumeikan (1942)
- Wife (1942)
- Mother and Wife (1943)
- Three Days' Leave (1943)
- The One Who Is Loved (1946)
- Mirror and Wig (1947)
- Flower Resentment (1948)
- Beautiful Person (1948)
- Person of the Harem (1948)
- Calendar of Revenge (1948)
- The Girl in Evening Dress (1949)
- Sisters in the Storm (1949)
- Novel: Life Guidance (1951)
作家による翻訳
- Profile of Europe (translation of Sam Welles, 1950)
作風・主題
- 文体
- emotive modern proseI-novel / autobiographical elementspsychological depiction from a female perspective
- 頻出モチーフ
- love and passionlonelinesswomen's fate and conflictsconflict between society and the individual
健康
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lung cancer1950年代初頭 - 1955年Severely affected her late-career productivity and health; led to her death in 1955
評価・遺産
Shizue Masugi was an early 20th-century female novelist known for works focusing on female psychology and romantic relationships. Her private life—marked by scandals and liaisons with prominent literary figures—attracted attention and made her a controversial figure across prewar and postwar periods.
資料所蔵先
- National Diet Library Digital Collections / Digital Library of Japan (Collected works of Shizue Masugi)
- National Diet Library (Japan) — holdings
大衆文化への影響
- Nobuko Yoshiya — 'Heart of a Small Fish: Shizue Masugi and I'
- Mariko Hayashi — 'On Women Writers' (includes passages on Masugi)
- Tatsuzō Ishikawa — 'Floating Flowers' (a novel modeled on Masugi)
豆知識
- There are conflicting reports about her birth year (1901 vs. 1905).
- She spent much of her childhood in Taiwan and worked as a nurse at Taichung Hospital.
- Debuted in the literary world in 1927 under the guidance of Saneatsu Mushakoji.
- Attended Queen Elizabeth II's coronation and the International PEN congress in 1953.