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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.
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...
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.
Jan 14, 2017 · Yasushi Inoue's debut novel, 'The Hunting Gun,' was published in 1949, a year before he won the Akutagawa Prize for his second novel, 'The Bullfight.' The story — which adopts a...
Feb 2, 1991 · Yasushi Inoue, a Japanese novelist known mainly for his historical fiction, died on Tuesday. He was 83 years old. The cause of death was pneumonia.
