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Eiji Yoshikawa
Eiji Yoshikawa was a Japanese historical novelist, best known for his revisions of classics and retelling of historical events through the lens of semi-biographical fiction books.
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culture · Japanese historical novelist (1892–1962) · novelist · writer · screenwriter · journalist · poet · also Eiji Yoshikawa, Yoshikawa Eiji, Yoshikawa
Born 11 August 1892 · Died 7 September 1962 · Q221957
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1962· 2 entries
Died from cancer-related complications
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Died 1962-09-07.
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Culture (1960).
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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (1960).
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(the highest award for a man of letters in Japan), the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Mainichi Art Award just before his death from lung cancer in 1962
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Asahi Prize (1955).
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Kikuchi Kan Prize (1953).
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1938· 1 entry
Yoshikawa joined the Pen butai (lit
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1937· 1 entry
The Asahi Shimbun sent him into the field as a special correspondent
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1935· 1 entry
With the serialization of Musashi, about famed swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, in the Asahi Shimbun, his writing settled firmly into the genre of historical adventure fiction
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1921· 1 entry
And in the following year he began publishing serializations, starting with Life of Shinran
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1914· 1 entry
With The Tale of Enoshima, he won first prize in a novel-writing contest sponsored by the publisher Kodansha
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-08-11.
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