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第3回（1964年 第2回開催） award
Tomeo Yagiri
やぎり とめお
Yagiri Tomeo
別名:
矢留 節夫 (本名)
ペンネーム:
Yatosetsu-o (pen name)（Used for prewar and immediate postwar adventure and detective fiction）
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1914-12-22 （Nagoya (some sources state Yokohama)）
- 死没
- 1987-04-28 72歳
- 国籍
- Japan
- 言語
- Japanese
- 居住地歴
- Nagoya (possible birthplace) → Yokohama (possible birthplace) → Yap Island (South Pacific, former mandate) → Sulawesi (former Celebes Island) → Fengtian (Manchuria; present-day Shenyang) → Hongo/Hakusan area, Tokyo
経歴
- 職業
- novelist, historical writer, translator (possible), publisher (representative), lecturer, associate professor, business owner
- 活動期間
- 1931年〜1987年
- 所属
- Nihon Shell Publishing (representative), Nihon University (lecturer), Meiji University (associate professor)
- 影響を受けた人物
- Itō Sei
- 影響を与えた人物
- Motohiko Izawa, Ryū Ota
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nihon University, Specialized Department | — | Department of Literature (Specialized Division) | — | 〜1931年 | Japan |
Nihon University, Specialized Department
Department of Literature (Specialized Division)
期間:
〜1931年
卒業年:
1931
国:
Japan
Studied under Itō Sei
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award | Sunpo Musha | — | Shosetsu Gendai (magazine) | 受賞 |
Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award
1964
対象作品:
Sunpo Musha
主催:
Shosetsu Gendai (magazine)
結果:
受賞
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Sunpo Musha
1964年 short storyA short story published in 1964 that won the 3rd Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award and marked the start of Yagiri's full-time writing career.
historyhuman natureintersection of fiction and historical fact
Nobunaga's Murder: Not Mitsuhide
1967年 historical essay / revisionist historyAn essay that proposes a non-Mitsuhide perpetrator for the assassination of Oda Nobunaga. A representative volume of the 'Yagiri Unexpected History' series.
Oda Nobunagarevisionist historyassassination theories
History of Japan's Indigenous Peoples
1972年 historical hypothesis / speculative historyPresents hypotheses such as the Yamato people being an incoming group and that indigenous people (e.g. Sanka) had a leading role; influential in the 1970s and cited by some New Left thinkers.
indigeneitymigration of peoplesreinterpretation of Japanese history
History of the Sanka
1984年 folklore studies / historyA work on the Sanka (mountain people). One of the books that contributed to Yagiri's reputation as a researcher of mountain-dwelling groups and later re-evaluation in folklore studies.
folklorehistorically discriminated groupsoral traditions
全著作
- Captain Nagasaki Maru
- Notes from the South
- Tales of the Greater East Asian Seas
- Youth Equatorial Festival
- Battle of the Nanban Ships
- Sunpo Musha
- Nobunaga's Murder: Not Mitsuhide
- Did Hideyoshi Kill Nobunaga?
- History of Japan's Indigenous Peoples
- Uesugi Kenshin Was a Woman
- Yagiri's 'Unexpected History' series (various titles)
- On Seppuku: Not Righteous Warriors
- History of the Sanka
- Sanka Folklore Studies
- Cruel History of Japan
作風・主題
- 文体
- provocativenarrative-essay style with high entertainment valuepresenting unique historical theories
- 頻出モチーフ
- presentation of revisionist historyindigenous peoples / Sankareinterpretation of Sengoku warlordsmaritime / southern regionselements of adventure and detective fiction
評価・遺産
Although he achieved broad popular success and produced many bestsellers, Yagiri's handling of sources and methodology drew strong academic criticism. From the 2000s some re-evaluation occurred and previously out-of-print works were republished.
関連学会
- 'Rekishi Minzokugaku' (journal special issue)
資料所蔵先
- Tomeo Yagiri Works Collection (rekishi.info)
- National Diet Library (catalog holdings)
大衆文化への影響
- The 'Yagiri Unexpected History' series became bestsellers for a time and was widely known among general readers
引用
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Books are meant to be read, not for money.
出典: Colophon of Nihon Shell Publishing
豆知識
- His real name was Yadome Setsuo; he wrote under pen names including Tomeo Yagiri and Yatosetsu-o.
- He ran a small publisher in Manchuria and reportedly attempted collective suicide with a Kanto Army officer at the end of the war; the attempt was unsuccessful.
- He ran a small business manufacturing home fire extinguishers, which failed after an experiment publicized by Kurashi no Techo led to mass returns.
- He published works himself via Nihon Shell Publishing and even declared the abandonment of copyright for some works.