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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.
Jan 29, 1991 · Yasushi Inoue (井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and short fiction of ...
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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.
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Yasushi Inoue has 228 books on Goodreads with 26212 ratings. Yasushi Inoue’s most popular book is The Hunting Gun.
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.
Aug 19, 2014 · Yasushi Inoue did not make his debut in literature until 1949 at the age of forty-two. He did so with the two short novels Bullfight and The Hunting Gun ; the former won him the prestigious Akutagawa Prize—the Japanese equivalent of the Pulitzer—and he went on to write over fifty novels and win every major Japanese literary prize, including ...
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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 the...
