Eiji Yoshikawa
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Eiji Yoshikawa (, Yoshikawa Eiji, August 11, 1892 – September 7, 1962) was a Japanese historical novelist. Revisions of older classics are one of his most well-known books. He was mainly inspired by classics such as The Tale of the Heike, Tale of Genji, Water Margin, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many of whom he retold in his own style. As an example, Yoshikawa took up Taiko's original manuscript in 15 volumes to retell it in a more comprehensive tone and reduce it to just two volumes. His other books also serve similar reasons, and although the bulk of his books are not original works, he nonetheless produced a lot of work and a renewed interest in the past. In 1960, he was granted the Cultural Order of Merit (the highest award for a man of letters in Japan), the Order of the Sacred Treasure, and the Mainichi Art Award right before his death from cancer in 1962. He is regarded as one of Japan's finest historical novelists. In the west, the complete translation of his "Miyamoto Musashi" is only available in Portuguese.
Life
He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture (, Yoshikawa Hidetsugugu), in what is now a part of Yokohama. Because of his father's bankruptcy, he had to drop out of primary school to work. He moved to Tokyo and became an apprentice in a gold lacquer workshop when he was 18 years old after a near-fatal crash on the Yokohama docks. He became interested in comedic haiku about this time. He joined a poetry club and began writing comedic haiku under the pseudonym "Kijiro."
He won the first prize in a novel-writing competition sponsored by Kodansha in 1914. He joined the newspaper Maiyu Shimbun in 1921 and began serializations in the following year, beginning with Life of Shinran.
In 1923, the year of the Great Kant earthquake, he married Yasu Akazawa. His writing experience in the earthquake boosted his resolve to resume writing. He wrote stories in various periodicals published by Kodansha, who regarded him as their number one author in the following years. Before settling on Eiji Yoshikawa, he used 19 pen names. He first used this pen name when he first saw Sword Trouble, Woman Intuition. Since the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun's Secret Record of Naruto was serialized in the Osaka Shimbun, his name became a household term; from then on, his writing became more popular.
His writing became more reflective in the early 1930s, expressing growing pains in his personal life. But firmly into historical adventure fiction in 1935, with the serialization of Musashi's tale about respected swordsman Miyamoto Musashi in the Asahi Shimbun.
As a result of the outbreak of war with China in 1937, Asahi Shimbun sent him into the field as a special reporter. He divorced Yasu Akazawa and married Fumiko Ikedo at this time. He wrote novels during the war and was more inspired by Chinese culture. Taiko and his re-telling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are among the works of this period.
He stopped writing for a while and settled down to enjoy a quiet retirement in Yoshino (present-day Oumeshi) on Tokyo's outskirts, but by 1947, he had resumed writing. His wartime contributions include New Tale of the Heike, which appeared in the Asahi Weekly (1950), and A Private Record of the Pacific War (1958).
He died of cancer-related disorders on September 7, 1962.