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Yoshiko Shibaki
芝しば木き好子よしこ
Born(1914-05-07)7 May 1914
Tokyo, Japan
Died25 August 1991(1991-08-25) (aged 77)
NationalityJapanese
OccupationWriter
Notable work
  • Seika no ichi
  • Sumidagawa boshoku

Yoshiko Shibaki (芝しば木き好子よしこ, Shibaki Yoshiko, 7 May 1914 – 25 August 1991) was a Japanese writer of short stories and novels.[1][2][3] She was awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Women's Literature Prize.[3]

Biography

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Early life

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Shibaki was born in Tokyo on 7 May 1914 into a merchant family.[1] From an early age on, she was trained in traditional Japanese arts like the tea ceremony, writing tanka and painting, and was taken to see kabuki plays.[2] She graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Daiichi High School in 1932 and started studying English at Surugadai YWCA Women's Academy.[1][3] After her father's death, she aborted her studies and started working at the Mitsubishi Center for Economic Studies to support her family.[1][4] In 1941, she married economist Kiyoshi Oshima.[1][3]

Career

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Shibaki started contributing to literary magazines such as Reijokai and Wakakusa in 1935 after her mother's death.[1] She was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 1941 for her short story "Seika no ichi" (青果せいかの市し, lit. "The fruit and vegetable market"), making her the second female writer to win the award.[1] During World War II, she was sent to Manchuria by the Japanese military government to write about Japanese settlements there,[5] while her literary output lessened.[1] After the war, she published stories like Nagareru hi (lit. "The coursing sun"), Onna hitori (lit. "A woman alone") and Ruri no uta (lit. "The journey song") which thematised domestic social changes.[1] In the 1950s, she gained critical attention with Susaki paradaisu (lit. "Susaki paradise") and Yakoo no onna (lit. "Women in illumination"), both fictional accounts of Tokyo's prostitution milieu.[1][3] Her trilogy of biographical stories, Yuba (lit. "Soya extract"), Sumidagawa (lit. "The river Sumida") and Marounuchi hachigokan (lit. "Marounuchi building number eight"), published between 1960 and 1962, are regarded as highlights in her literary career.[2][3]

She became a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1980, and received their Award for the Literary Arts in 1981.[1] Her novel Sumidagawa boshoku (隅田川すみだがわ暮色ぼしょく, lit. "Dusk on the Sumida river") won the Shincho Literary Award and the Nihon Literature Prize.[1]

Shibaki died of breast cancer on 25 August 1991.[3]

Bibliography (selected)

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  • Seika no ichi (青果せいかの市し), 1941
  • Susaki paradaisu- Susaki Paradise (洲崎すざきパラダイス), 1954
  • Yuba (湯葉ゆば), 1960
  • Yoru no tsuru- The Night Crane (夜よるの鶴づる), 1964
  • Katsushika no onna (葛飾かつしかの女おんな), 1965
  • Asu o shirazu (明日あしたを知しらず), 1968
  • Kazahana (風花かざばな), 1970
  • Kiiroi Kotei (黄色きいろい皇帝こうてい), 1976
  • Onna no shozo (女おんなの肖像しょうぞう), 1979
  • Sumidagawa boshoku (隅田川すみだがわ暮色ぼしょく), 1984
  • Susaki no onna (洲崎すざきの女おんな), 1994

Film adaptations (selected)

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata; Edelstein, Marlene R. (1994). Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies, 1900–1993. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 87-7289-268-4. OCLC 32348453.
  2. ^ a b c Mulhern, Chieko Irie (1994). Japanese women writers : a bio-critical sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25486-9. OCLC 29848281.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "芝しば木き好子よしこ (Shibaki Yoshiko)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  4. ^ Bretschneider, Marianne; Haase, Heinz, eds. (1989). Erkundungen. 19 japanische Erzähler. Berlin: Volk und Welt.
  5. ^ Fairbanks, Carol (2002). Japanese Women Fiction Writers. Their Culture and Society, 1890s to 1990s : English Language Source. The University of Virginia. ISBN 9780810840867.
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