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{{Short description|Japanese author and guitarist}}
'''Fukazawa Shichiro''', 深沢七郎 (January 29, 1914 - August 18, 1987) was a noted [[Japanese author]].
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{{Nihongo|'''Shichirō Fukazawa'''|深沢 七郎|Fukazawa Shichirō|January 29, 1914 – August 18, 1987}} was a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[author]] and [[guitarist]] whose 1960 short story ''Fūryū mutan'' ("Tale of an Elegant Dream") caused a nationwide uproar and led to an attempt by an ultranationalist to assassinate the president of the magazine that published it.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=255–61}}</ref>
Fukazawa was born in [[Isawa, Yamanashi]]. His first novel, ''[[The Ballad of Narayama]]'' (Narayama bushiko, 楢山節考), won the Chūōkōron Prize, and was twice made into a movie script: first by [[Kinoshita Keisuke]] (1958) and again by [[Imamura Shōhei]] (1983) when it won the [[Cannes Film Festival]] [[Palme d'Or]].


== Biography ==
In 1960, ''[[Chuo Koron]]'' published a satire that he wrote, called ''Furyu mutan'' (“The Story of a Dream of Courtly Elegance"). In it the narrator dreams that leftists take over the imperial palace and behead Crown Prince [[Akihito]] and Princess [[Empress Michiko of Japan|Michiko]] before an enthusiastic crowd. This story provoked fury in the [[Imperial Household Agency]] and among Japanese ultra-nationalists. On February 1, 1961, a seventeen-year-old rightist broke into the home of Chuo's president, [[Shimanaka Hoji]], killed a maid with a sword, and severely wounded Shimanaka's wife in response to the story. Fukazawa went into hiding and was little seen in public afterwards.
Fukazawa was born in [[Isawa, Yamanashi]], Japan.<ref name="Shinchosha">{{cite web |date=2001-10-05|url=http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/book/113601/|script-title=ja:深沢七郎／著|accessdate=2009-01-28|publisher=[[Shinchosha]]|language=Japanese}}</ref> His first novel, {{Nihongo|''[[The Ballad of Narayama (novel)|The Ballad of Narayama]]''|楢山節考|Narayama bushikō}}, won the prestigious [[Chuokoron Shinsha|Chūō Kōron Prize]],<ref name="isis">{{cite web
|date=2001-10-05
|url=http://www.isis.ne.jp/mnn/senya/senya0393.html
|script-title=ja:深沢七郎: 『楢山節考』
|accessdate=2009-01-28
|publisher=ISIS
|language=Japanese
}}</ref>
announcing his status as a rising star in the literary world, and has twice been adapted for film: [[The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film)|first]] by [[Keisuke Kinoshita]] in 1958,<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:123857
|title=The Ballad of Narayama
|accessdate=2009-01-28
|last=Erickson
|first=Hal
|publisher=[[All Movie Guide]]
}}</ref>
and [[The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)|again]] by [[Shōhei Imamura]] in 1983.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:3805~T0
|title=The Ballad of Narayama
|accessdate=2009-01-28
|last=Mannikka
|first=Eleanor
|publisher=[[All Movie Guide]]
}}</ref>
Imamura's film won the [[Cannes Film Festival]] [[Palme d'Or]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:3805~T4
|title=The Ballad of Narayama: Awards
|accessdate=2009-01-28
|last=Mannikka
|first=Eleanor
|publisher=[[All Movie Guide]]
}}</ref>

== Shimanaka Incident ==
{{Main|Shimanaka Incident}}
In the fall of 1960, the mainstream monthly magazine ''[[Chūō Kōron]]'' published his satirical short story ''Furyū mutan'' (風流夢譚, “The Tale of an Elegant Dream").<ref name="Kapur 256">{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=256}}</ref> In the story, an unnamed protagonist narrates a dream sequence in which leftists take over the Imperial Palace and behead the Emperor and Empress, as well as the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, before an enthusiastic crowd.<ref name="Kapur 256"/> This story provoked fury in the [[Imperial Household Agency]] and among Japanese right-wing ultranationalists.<ref name="Kapur 256"/><ref name="Charleston">{{cite news |title=Jap Novelist's Dream Account Raises Furor|agency=[[Associated Press]]|work=[[Charleston Daily Mail]]|publisher=The Daily Gazette Company|location=[[Charleston, West Virginia]]|page=6|date=1960-12-01|quote=The imperial household agency reacted angrily. There was talk of civil court action... An ultranationalist group in Tokyo, the "Greater Japan Patriotic Party," demanded the magazine issue an apology for printing the story.... Fukazawa... was reported hiding from possible physical attack from rightists.}}</ref>

On February 1, 1961, in response to the story, [[Kazutaka Komori]], a seventeen-year-old rightist, broke into the home of [[Hōji Shimanaka]], ''Chūō Kōron'' magazine's president, killed his maid and severely wounded his wife.<ref name="Kapur 257">{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=257}}</ref><ref name="McNeill">{{cite journal|first=David|last=McNeill|title="What Role Japan's Imperial Family?"|journal=The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus|date=December 12, 2005|volume=3|issue=12|url=http://www.japanfocus.org/site/view/2164}}</ref> Fukazawa received death threats on a daily basis,<ref name="Kapur 257"/> and after offering a tearful public apology, went into hiding for five years.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=258–59}}</ref> His promising literary career went into a long hiatus, and although he later returned to writing, he never fully recovered his "rising star" status.<ref name="Kapur 259">{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=259}}</ref> In later years, he could be found serving grilled bean cakes ([[imagawayaki]]) in a working class Tokyo neighborhood at a stall called "Dream Shop" (''Yumeya'').<ref name="Kapur 259"/>

The aftermath of the {{Nihongo|''Shimanaka incident''|嶋中事件|Shimanaka jiken}} meant that criticism of the Imperial Family, and discussion of the role or existence of the Emperor, became taboo.<ref name="McNeill"/><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=261}}</ref>


== Selected prizes ==
== Selected prizes ==
* 1956 ''Chūō Kōron'' Prize for ''[[The Ballad of Narayama (novel)|The Ballad of Narayama]]'' ({{Interlanguage link|Narayamabushi ko|ja|3=楢山節考}})<ref name="Shinchosha"/><ref name="isis"/>
* 1956 Chūōkōron Prize for 楢山節考
* 1981 [[Tanizaki Prize]] for ''Michinoku no ningyotachi'' (みちのくの人形たち)
* 1981 [[Tanizaki Prize]] for ''Michinoku no ningyotachi'' (みちのくの人形たち)<ref name="Shinchosha"/>


== Selected works ==
== Selected works ==
* ''Narayama bushiko'', 楢山節考, 1956.
* ''Narayama bushikō'', 楢山節考, 1956.
* 東北の神武たち, 1957.
* ''Tōhoku no Zunmu-tachi'', 東北の神武たち, 1957.
* 笛吹川, 1958.
* 笛吹川, 1958.
* 言わなければよかったのに日記, 1958.
* 言わなければよかったのに日記, 1958.
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* 無妙記, 1975.
* 無妙記, 1975.
* 妖木犬山椒, 1975.
* 妖木犬山椒, 1975.
* ''Michinoku no ningyotachi'' (みちのくの人形たち), 1979.
* ''Michinoku no ningyōtachi'' (みちのくの人形たち), 1979.
* ''Chotto ippuku meido no michikusa'' (ちょっと 一服 冥土 の 道草), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1983.
* ''Chotto ippuku meido no michikusa'' (ちょっと 一服 冥土 の 道草), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1983.
* 極楽まくらおとし図, 1984.
* 極楽まくらおとし図, 1984.


==Records==
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* ''Sobo no mukashigatari'' (Nippon Columbia 1973)
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[[Category:Japanese writer stubs]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Latest revision as of 23:59, 28 September 2024

Shichirō Fukazawa
Born(1914-01-29)January 29, 1914
Isawa, Japan
DiedAugust 18, 1987(1987-08-18) (aged 73)
Japan
OccupationAuthor
GenreFiction

Shichirō Fukazawa (深沢 七郎, Fukazawa Shichirō, January 29, 1914 – August 18, 1987) was a Japanese author and guitarist whose 1960 short story Fūryū mutan ("Tale of an Elegant Dream") caused a nationwide uproar and led to an attempt by an ultranationalist to assassinate the president of the magazine that published it.[1]

Biography

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Fukazawa was born in Isawa, Yamanashi, Japan.[2] His first novel, The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō), won the prestigious Chūō Kōron Prize,[3] announcing his status as a rising star in the literary world, and has twice been adapted for film: first by Keisuke Kinoshita in 1958,[4] and again by Shōhei Imamura in 1983.[5] Imamura's film won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or.[6]

Shimanaka Incident

[edit]
Main article: Shimanaka Incident

In the fall of 1960, the mainstream monthly magazine Chūō Kōron published his satirical short story Furyū mutan (風流夢譚, “The Tale of an Elegant Dream").[7] In the story, an unnamed protagonist narrates a dream sequence in which leftists take over the Imperial Palace and behead the Emperor and Empress, as well as the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, before an enthusiastic crowd.[7] This story provoked fury in the Imperial Household Agency and among Japanese right-wing ultranationalists.[7][8]

On February 1, 1961, in response to the story, Kazutaka Komori, a seventeen-year-old rightist, broke into the home of Hōji Shimanaka, Chūō Kōron magazine's president, killed his maid and severely wounded his wife.[9][10] Fukazawa received death threats on a daily basis,[9] and after offering a tearful public apology, went into hiding for five years.[11] His promising literary career went into a long hiatus, and although he later returned to writing, he never fully recovered his "rising star" status.[12] In later years, he could be found serving grilled bean cakes (imagawayaki) in a working class Tokyo neighborhood at a stall called "Dream Shop" (Yumeya).[12]

The aftermath of the Shimanaka incident (嶋中事件, Shimanaka jiken) meant that criticism of the Imperial Family, and discussion of the role or existence of the Emperor, became taboo.[10][13]

Selected prizes

[edit]

Selected works

[edit]
  • Narayama bushikō, 楢山節考, 1956.
  • Tōhoku no Zunmu-tachi, 東北の神武たち, 1957.
  • 笛吹川, 1958.
  • 言わなければよかったのに日記, 1958.
  • 東京のプリンスたち, 1959.
  • 千秋楽, 1964.
  • 甲州子守唄, 1964.
  • 人間滅亡の唄, 1966.
  • 庶民烈伝, 1970.
  • 盆栽老人とその周辺, 1973.
  • 無妙記, 1975.
  • 妖木犬山椒, 1975.
  • Michinoku no ningyōtachi (みちのくの人形たち), 1979.
  • Chotto ippuku meido no michikusa (ちょっと 一服 冥土 の 道草), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1983.
  • 極楽まくらおとし図, 1984.

Records

[edit]
  • Sobo no mukashigatari (Nippon Columbia 1973)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 255–61.
  2. ^ a b c 深沢七郎／著 (in Japanese). Shinchosha. 2001-10-05. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  3. ^ a b 深沢七郎: 『楢山節考』 (in Japanese). ISIS. 2001-10-05. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  4. ^ Erickson, Hal. "The Ballad of Narayama". All Movie Guide. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  5. ^ Mannikka, Eleanor. "The Ballad of Narayama". All Movie Guide. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  6. ^ Mannikka, Eleanor. "The Ballad of Narayama: Awards". All Movie Guide. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  7. ^ a b c Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 256.
  8. ^ "Jap Novelist's Dream Account Raises Furor". Charleston Daily Mail. Charleston, West Virginia: The Daily Gazette Company. Associated Press. 1960-12-01. p. 6. The imperial household agency reacted angrily. There was talk of civil court action... An ultranationalist group in Tokyo, the "Greater Japan Patriotic Party," demanded the magazine issue an apology for printing the story.... Fukazawa... was reported hiding from possible physical attack from rightists.
  9. ^ a b Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 257.
  10. ^ a b McNeill, David (December 12, 2005). ""What Role Japan's Imperial Family?"". The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 3 (12).
  11. ^ Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 258–59.
  12. ^ a b Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 259.
  13. ^ Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 261.
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