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第8回(1968年) award
Tokiko Matsuda
まつだ ときこ
Matsuda Tokiko
プロフィール
- 性別
- 女性
- 生誕
- 1905-07-18 (Arakawa Village, Semboku District, Akita Prefecture, Japan)
- 死没
- 2004-12-26 99歳
- 国籍
- Japan
- 言語
- Japanese
経歴
- 職業
- Novelist, Poet, Children's author, Writer
- 活動期間
- 1928年〜2004年
- 所属
- New Japanese Literature Association, Japan Democratic Literary Association
- 影響を受けた人物
- Labor movement, Proletarian literature movement
- 影響を与えた人物
- Tetsuro Onuma (son, documentary filmmaker)
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akita Women's Normal School | Main Course, Second Division (one-year program) | — | — | 1923-1924 | Japan |
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Tamura Toshiko Prize | Orin Koden | — | — | Winner |
| — | Takiji & Yuriko Prize | Orin Koden | — | — | Winner |
| 1928 | Yomiuri Newspaper Women's New Short Story Contest - Selected | Umu ("To Give Birth") | — | Yomiuri Shimbun | Selected |
受賞・候補エディション
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第1回(1969年) award
作品
代表作
Orin Koden
1966年 NovelA long novel based on the life of the author's mother. Through the lives of mother and daughter it depicts aspects of capitalism's development and social reform movements in early 20th-century Japan; the centerpiece of a trilogy.
Orin: Mother and Child Account
1974年 NovelA continuation in the series on mother and child, depicting family and historical backgrounds from the mother's perspective and portraying community life and women's experiences.
The Typist with a Peach-Shaped Parting
1977年 FictionPositioned as a continuation in the trilogy, this work examines women's occupations and social positions, depicting changing times through individual lives.
Women's Suffering
1933年 NovelAn early novel addressing social pressures and hardships faced by women.
Selling Milk ("Chichi o Uru")
1929年 Short storyA short story concerning poverty and motherhood. One of her early notable pieces; first appeared in a magazine and later reprinted.
People of the Earth (The Underground People)
1972年 FictionOne of the works themed on mining and laborers, portraying people's lives from perspectives of region and labor.
全著作
- Women's Suffering (Novel) — 1933
- To the Patient Ones (Poetry) — 1935
- Women's Line (Long Novel) — 1937
- With Children — 1938
- The Foolish Feast — 1940
- Topics of Women — 1940
- Wandering Forest — 1940
- Meditations on Flowers — 1940
- A Woman's Dream — 1941
- Shadow of the Teacher — 1941
- Morning Mist — 1942
- Passion of the Sea (Novel) — 1942
- Notes of a Farming Woman — 1944
- Orin Koden (Parts I & II) — 1966-1968
- Daughters of the Mine (Poetry) — 1972
- Selling Milk — 1972 (collected)
- People of the Earth — 1972
- Throbbing Postwar — 1973
- To Days That Are Not Yet — 1973
- Orin: Mother and Child Account — 1974
- The Typist... (Sequel to Orin Mother and Child Account) — 1977
- Forest of Recollections — 1979
- The Cherry Trees Within You — 1981
- Collected Poems of Tokiko Matsuda — 1985
- Song of the Mountain Cherry — 1985
- Poems of the Feet — 1987
- Listening to the Earth — 1987
- On Living and Literature — 1988
- Tokiko Matsuda Short Stories — 1989
- Women Bearing Tomorrow — 1992
- Still Walking: My Life and Literature — 1995
- Women's Recollections — 2000
- Tokiko Matsuda Selected Works (10 vols.) — collected edition
- The Pink Dubdub: Children's Stories — 2004
- Selling Milk / Morning Mist (Kodansha Bungei Bunko) — 2005 (edition)
翻案
- 1929: "Zen Josei Shinshutsu Koshinkyoku" was set to music by Kosaku Yamada and recorded (a piece adopted from a magazine contest).
作風・主題
- 文体
- Realist depictionSocial critique from a female perspectiveLyrical poetic expression (in poetry collections)
- 頻出モチーフ
- Mother-child bondsLabor and mining communitiesWomen's work and livelihoodRural life and modernization
評価・遺産
Tokiko Matsuda is regarded for depicting labor and the transformations of capitalism in early 20th-century Japan through the lives of her mother and herself. Her Orin trilogy, written from a woman's perspective about community and labor, earned literary recognition (including the Tamura Toshiko and Takiji & Yuriko Prizes). She continued writing into old age and is considered an important author for women's and labor histories.
関連学会
- New Japanese Literature Association
- Japan Democratic Literary Association
豆知識
- Birth name: Hana Onuma.
- In 1928 her short story "Umu" was selected in a Yomiuri Shimbun contest for women writers.
- She received the Tamura Toshiko Prize and the Takiji & Yuriko Prize for "Orin Koden" (years not specified in source material).
- Her eldest son is documentary filmmaker Tetsuro Onuma.
- Died in 2004 at the age of 99.