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Mika Umeda
うめだ みか
Umeda Mika
Pen Names:
Hagoromo Mariko（Used for lyric-writing credits）
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1965-02-01 （Tokyo, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Tokyo, Japan
Career
- Occupations
- Screenwriter, Essayist, Lyricist
- Active Years
- 1994-
- Influenced By
- Haruo Umeda
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keio University, Faculty of Letters | Faculty of Letters | Department of Philosophy (Aesthetics and Art History) | — | — | Japan |
Keio University, Faculty of Letters
Faculty of Letters
/ Department of Philosophy (Aesthetics and Art History)
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Sake-Drinking Bookseller Award | Sea and Pearls | — | Sake-Drinking Bookseller Award | Winner |
Sake-Drinking Bookseller Award
2015
Work:
Sea and Pearls
Organization:
Sake-Drinking Bookseller Award
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Where You Find Love
1992 Romance EssayA collection of essays on love, characterized by a sympathetic, intimate narrative voice about age and emotional nuances.
LoveInterpersonal relationships
The Rules of Lovers
1997 Romance Essay / Non-fictionAn essay based on personal experience about views on relationships. It became a bestseller and one of Umeda's representative works.
RomanceGender relationsAutobiographical experience
Adaptations
- [TV drama] The Rules of Lovers: I Want to Meet You (2000)
Sea and Pearls
2015 EssayA prize-winning work chosen by booksellers, consisting of meditative essays on the sea and everyday life.
Everyday lifeReminiscenceNature
Bibliography
- Where You Find Love (1992)
- Twelve Months of Farewells (1993)
- Soft-Boiled Egg (1994)
- Beloved Daughter (1996)
- 80 Ways to Find a Lover (1997)
- The Rules of Lovers (1997)
- Sea and Pearls (2015)
Adaptations
- The Rules of Lovers (TV drama, 2000)
- Boys Over Flowers (contributed to live-action film screenplay, 1995)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Direct, conversational narrationEssayistic prose grounded in personal experience
- Recurring Motifs
- Romantic and gender relationsSubtleties of everyday lifeEmotional perspectives from a female viewpoint
Legacy
Known both as a television screenwriter and as an author of relationship essays. Since the 1990s she has been a prominent writer of popular love-advice style essays, enjoying broad readership.
Trivia
- Her father is Haruo Umeda, a French literature scholar and playwright.
- Her brother is consultant Nozomu Umeda.
- Her former spouse is film director Masayuki Ochiai; she has a daughter.
- She has used the pen name Hagoromo Mariko for lyric-writing.