Japanese Fantasy Writers - Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Fuyumi Ono, Unno Juza, Chin Shunshin, Noriko Ogiwara, Soichiro Watase, Shinji Kajio (Paperback)

Chapters: Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Fuyumi Ono, Unno Juza, Chin Shunshin, Noriko Ogiwara, Soichiro Watase, Shinji Kajio, Hajime Kanzaka, Morio Kita, Boch Yamamura. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Shibusawa Tatsuhiko ) (8 May 1928 - 5 August 1987) was the pen name of Shibusawa Tatsuo, a novelist, art critic and translator of French literature in Shwa period Japan. Shibusawa wrote many short stories and novels based on French literature and Japanese classics. His essays about black magic, demonology, and eroticism are also popular in Japan. Shibusawa was born in the upper-class district of Takanawa in Tokyo. His father was a banker, and his mother was the daughter of an industrialist and politician. He was distantly related to the famous Shibusawa Eiichi. While going through high school during World War II, he had the ambition to be an aeronautical engineer. However, the possibilities for a career in that field disappeared with Japan's defeat in the war, and Shibusawa received notably poor scores in the German language, which was widely used in engineering at the time. He turned his attention to study of the French language instead. In 1950, after working as an editor at the Modern Nihon magazine under Junnosuke Yoshiyuki for 2 years (one of the authors he edited was Hisao Juran), he entered the University of Tokyo's school of French literature, where he enthusiastically embraced the avant-garde movement of surrealism, which started in France after World War I. He was especially attracted to Andre Breton, and this led him to learn of the works of the Marquis de Sade. Although he did graduate from a master's course at the University of Tokyo, he had to abandon plans to become a professor because of tuberculosis, and started his ca...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=7058732