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Sumie Tanaka

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Tanaka Sumie

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1908-04-11 （Kita-Toshima District, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan）
死没
2000-03-01 （Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan） 91歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
宗教
Catholicism 1951年受洗
居住地歴
Kugenuma, Fujisawa (formerly Fujisawa Town), Kanagawa, Japan → Tottori (evacuated during WWII), Japan → Kyoto, Japan (moved postwar) → Nakano Ward, Tokyo, Japan → Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan (later life)

経歴

職業
Author, Screenwriter, Essayist, Playwright, Lyricist, Broadcast writer
活動期間
1932年〜2000年
所属
Japan PEN Club, Japan Theatre Association, Japan Writers' Association, Japan Broadcast Writers Association
所属団体
Japan PEN Club, Japan Theatre Association, Japan Writers' Association, Japan Broadcast Writers Association
影響を受けた人物
Kido Okamoto, Kan Kikuchi, Chikao Tanaka, Fumiko Hayashi

学歴

Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School (now Ochanomizu University)
Japanese Literature / Department of Japanese Literature
卒業年: 1932
国: Japan
After graduation she taught at Sacred Heart Girls' School (Seishin).

受賞歴

Blue Ribbon Awards (Film)
1951
対象作品: Wagaya wa Tanoshii; Shōnenki; Meshi (screenplays)
部門: 脚本賞
主催: Association of Tokyo Film Journalists (Blue Ribbon Awards)
結果: 受賞
NHK Broadcasting Culture Award
1952
主催: NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
結果: 受賞
Art Festival Prize
1971
対象作品: NHK 'Nagasaki no Hisen' (lyrics)
部門: 優秀賞（音楽放送部門）
主催: Japan Art Festival (sponsored by Agency for Cultural Affairs)
結果: 受賞
Art Encouragement Prize: Minister of Education Award
1973
対象作品: Kakitsubata Gunraku (Iris Colony)
部門: 文学・評論部門
主催: Art Encouragement Prize (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
結果: 受賞
Purple Ribbon Medal
1977
主催: Government of Japan
結果: 受章
Order of the Precious Crown, Fourth Class
1984
主催: Government of Japan
結果: 受章
Yomiuri Literature Prize
1980
対象作品: Hana no Hyakumeizan (Flower's Hundred Famous Mountains)
部門: 随筆紀行賞
主催: Yomiuri Shimbun
結果: 受賞
Murasaki Shikibu Literary Prize
1996
対象作品: Otto no Shimatsu (Handling of My Husband)
主催: Murasaki Shikibu Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Women's Literature Prize
1996
対象作品: Otto no Shimatsu (Handling of My Husband)
部門: 第35回
主催: Women's Literature Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Avon Women's Awards
1997
部門: 功績賞
主催: Avon Products
結果: 受賞
Tokyo Honorary Citizen
1999
主催: Tokyo Metropolitan Government
結果: 授与

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Wagaya wa Tanoshii (Our Home Is Joyful)

1951年 Film screenplay

A 1951 film screenplay portraying everyday family life and interpersonal relationships.

familywomen's roleseveryday life
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Wagaya wa Tanoshii / 中村登 (1951)

Shōnenki (Boyhood)

1951年 Film screenplay

A screenplay for a film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, focusing on a boy's coming-of-age.

coming of agefamilyeducation
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Shōnenki / 木下惠介 (1951)

Meshi (Meal)

1951年 Film screenplay

A screenplay for Mikio Naruse's film that depicts human relationships around home and meals.

daily lifefamilyfood
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Meshi / 成瀬巳喜男 (1951)

Hana no Hyakumeizan (Flowers of a Hundred Famous Mountains)

1980年 Essays / Travel writing

An essay collection expressing love for mountains and the flowers that bloom there; well known among mountain enthusiasts.

mountainsnatureflowersmountaineering

Otto no Shimatsu (Handling of My Husband)

1995年 Novel

A novel that sensitively depicts marital relationships and aging; winner of the 1996 Women's Literature Prize.

marriagespousal relationsaging

全著作

  • Wagaya wa Tanoshii
  • Shōnenki
  • Meshi
  • To Love
  • Sumie Tanaka Broadcast Plays: Eight Modern Women
  • When the Cows Speak
  • Complete Plays of Sumie Tanaka
  • Seventeen's Diary
  • School for Brides
  • Miotsukushi's Bell
  • Town with Wind
  • A Story of Dogs and Cats
  • Rainbow
  • Kakitsubata Gunraku (Iris Colony)
  • Flower Wheel
  • Hana no Hyakumeizan (Flowers of a Hundred Famous Mountains)
  • Meet Old Age Head On
  • Otto no Shimatsu (Handling of My Husband)
  • Mountains Prolong Life
  • My Emotional Support

翻案

  • Film adaptations (Meshi; Wagaya wa Tanoshii; Shōnenki, etc.)
  • Television adaptations (NHK morning dramas such as 'Uzushio' and 'Niji', etc.)

作家による翻訳

  • Anne's Tales (text by Sumie Tanaka, translated by Kazuko Kijima / Shogakukan, 1977)
  • Samantha Carroll 'The Touch of Silk' (edited/translated)

作風・主題

文体
Intimate narrative voice portraying women's psychologyIn essays, a calm observational style focusing on mountains and flowersScreenplays employ realism with naturalistic dialogue
頻出モチーフ
flowersmountainswomen's independence and familyaging and life's maturation

健康

  • senility / old age
    晩年
    Activity decreased in later years but she continued to write.

評価・遺産

Active across film and television screenwriting, essays and novels in postwar Japan, she was especially praised for essays about women, mountains and flowers. She founded and led women's mountain-walking groups and was socially active; her contributions to literature and culture are widely recognized.

記念館・博物館

  • Yomesai-no-Hana Museum Built at her private residence (location: variously reported) 1988年開館

関連学会

  • Japan PEN Club
  • Japan Writers' Association
  • Japan Theatre Association

資料所蔵先

  • NHK Archives (likely holds related materials)
  • National Diet Library (holds publications)

大衆文化への影響

  • Known for NHK morning dramas and numerous film screenplays; widely recognized by the public
  • 'Hana no Hyakumeizan' is widely read among mountain and flower enthusiasts
  • Organized and led the women's mountain-walking group 'Takamizu-kai' beginning in 1967

豆知識

  • From 1967 she organized and led a women's mountain-walking club called 'Takamizu-kai'.
  • She was baptized into the Catholic Church in 1951.
  • Her husband was the playwright Chikao Tanaka.
  • She died of senility in 2000 at a hospital in Kiyose; her grave is in Fuchu Catholic Cemetery.
  • She was highly regarded for film screenplays, winning the Blue Ribbon Award for screenwriting in 1951.