Nihon Essayist Club Award
1 appearances
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Edition 67 (2019) award
Oichiro Kobori
こぼり おういちろう
Kobori Oichiro
Aliases:
小堀 鷗一郎
Pen Names:
Oichiro Kobori (original orthography)（Original orthography used historically / in family records）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1938-02-05 （Tokyo Prefecture, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Tokyo (born/raised) → Niiza, Saitama Prefecture (home medical care practice)
Career
- Occupations
- Physician, Surgeon, Essayist / Author
- Active Years
- 1965-
- Influenced By
- Mori Ogai (maternal grandfather)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine | Faculty of Medicine | Medical School (clinical) | 医学士 | 1960s | Japan |
| University of Tokyo | Graduate School (Medical Sciences) | Histochemical research on gastric cancer mucus and enzymes | 医学博士 | 1965-1971 | Japan |
University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
/ Medical School (clinical)
Degree:
医学士
Period:
1960s
Year of Graduation:
1965
Country:
Japan
Graduated from medical school
University of Tokyo
Graduate School (Medical Sciences)
/ Histochemical research on gastric cancer mucus and enzymes
Degree:
医学博士
Period:
1965-1971
Year of Graduation:
1971
Country:
Japan
Awarded MD-PhD for thesis on histochemical study of gastric cancer mucus and enzymes
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Japan Essayists' Club Prize (67th) | Living with Death: A Visiting Doctor and 355 Patients | — | Japan Essayists' Club | winner |
Japan Essayists' Club Prize (67th)
2019
Work:
Living with Death: A Visiting Doctor and 355 Patients
Organization:
Japan Essayists' Club
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Living with Death: A Visiting Doctor and 355 Patients
2018 EssayA reflective, practice-based essay drawing on the author's experience as a visiting physician. It chronicles patient encounters and end-of-life care, portraying how medicine meets individual deaths.
home medical careend-of-life carelife and death
Bibliography
- Living with Death: A Visiting Doctor and 355 Patients (Misuzu Shobo, 2018)
- The Digestive System (co-authored, Kurashi-no-Techo Sha, 2000)
- Accepting Death: Dialogues on Life and Death (co-authored with Takeshi Yoro, Shodensha, 2020)
- The Death That Will Come (co-authored with Shigesato Itoi, Magazine House, 2020)
- Cancer: Current Status and Latest Treatments (editorial responsibility, 1994)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Plain, observation-based proseVoice that respects patients' perspectives
- Recurring Motifs
- deathdeathbed carehome medical carefamily relationships
Legacy
Through long clinical service as a surgeon and accounts from home medical care practice, he contributed to public discussion on end-of-life care and how to confront individual deaths. He is also noted as a physician-author descended from Mori Ogai.
Trivia
- His maternal grandfather was the writer Mori Ogai.
- A University of Tokyo-trained surgeon who served as director at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM).
- After mandatory retirement he practiced home medical care in Niiza, Saitama, and won the Japan Essayists' Club Prize for a book based on those experiences.