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Yasushi Inoue (井上靖, Inoue Yasushi, May 6, 1907 – January 29, 1991) was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, noted for his historical and autobiographical fiction. His most acclaimed works include The Bullfight ( Tōgyū, 1949), The Roof Tile of Tempyō ( Tenpyō no iraka, 1957) and Tun-huang ( Tonkō, 1959). [1] Biography.
May 2, 2024 · Inoue Yasushi was a Japanese novelist noted for his historical fiction, notably Tempyō no iraka (1957; The Roof Tile of Tempyō), which depicts the drama of 8th-century Japanese monks traveling to China and bringing back Buddhist texts and other artifacts to Japan. Inoue graduated from Kyōto.
Jan 29, 1991 · Yasushi Inoue (井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.
The Hunting Gun a.k.a. Shotgun (Japanese: 猟銃, Hepburn: Ryōjū) is a Japanese novella by Yasushi Inoue first published in 1949. Spanning in time between the mid 1930s and late 1940s, it tells the story of a love affair between a married man and his wife's cousin, recounted through three long letters.
Apr 3, 2015 · Yasushi Inoue has never enjoyed such international popularity, but his enormous oeuvre — begun in midcentury and only in midlife, after a successful career as a newspaperman — made him one of...
A melancholic wisdom shapes these contrasting volumes by the remarkable Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue (1907-91), such is whose empathy at times that he transforms the study of human nature into...
Yasushi Inoue (1907-1991) was born in Hokkaido. After studying Philosophy at Kyoto University, he started working at the Mainichi newspapers. In 1950, he won the 22nd Akutagawa Prize for Togyu (The Bullfight). After he quit his job in 1951, he wrote numerous masterpieces. He received the Order of Culture in 1976.
