Biographies
of Authors
Contemporary Literature Category
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TAKIGUCHI Yusho
Novelist
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Born in Tokyo in 1982, TAKIGUCHI Yusho debuted in 2011 by winning the Shincho Prize for New Writers for Gakki. In 2015, he received the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for Ai to Jinsei ; in 2016, the Akutagawa Prize for Shinde Inai Mono ; in 2022, the Oda Sakunosuke Prize for Suiheisen ; in 2023, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for the same work; and that same year, the Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize for Hantai Hoko Yuki. His other works include Nezo, Jimi Hendricks Experience, Nasu no Kagayaki, Kokasen, Yagate Wasureru Katei no Tochu (Iowa Nikki), Nagai Ichinichi, Ramen Curry, and Sabishisa ni tsuite (co-authored with UEMOTO Ichiko).
Classical Literature Category
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OZAKI Masayoshi (1755 – 1827)
Scholar of Japanese Literature
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OZAKI Masayoshi was born in Settsu Province, in Osaka (present-day Osaka City). He studied Confucianism under OKUDA Shosai before turning to Kokugaku through the works by Keichu. He later authored and published numerous works that integrated Kokugaku and Confucianism. He also maintained close associations with waka poets and literati, including KIMURA Kenkado and members of the Kagawa Kageki school.
His representative work, Hyakunin Isshu Hitoyogatari, was published posthumously in 1833. This work offers detailed accounts of the poets featured in the Hyakunin Isshu, drawing on waka poetry and a wide range of historical and literary sources.
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FURUKAWA Hisashi (1909 – 1994)
Scholar of Japanese literature; Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Woman’s University
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Born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, FURUKAWA Hisashi graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at Tohoku Imperial University. While teaching at universities, he also served as a researcher at the Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University. His personal library is preserved at the Hosei University Library as the Furukawa Collection. In support of his mentor, KOMIYA Toyotaka, he contributed to the editing of the postwar Iwanami Shoten edition of Soseki Zenshu, while also pursuing his own research on NATSUME Soseki. His major publications include Meiji Nohgaku-shi Josetsu (1969; Wanya Shoten) and Soseki no Shokan (1970; Tokyodo Shuppan). His notable edited and annotated works include the three-volume Nihon Koten Zensho: Kyogen-shu (1953–56; Asahi Shimbun) and OZAKI Masayoshi’s Hyakunin Isshu Hitoyogatari (1972; Iwanami Bunko), among many others.