Name Shichiro Fukazawa | Role Author Books Narayama | |
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Born January 29, 1914Isawa, Yamanashi, Japan ( 1914-01-29 ) Movies The Ballad of Narayama, Fuefukigawa Similar People Shohei Imamura, Keisuke Kinoshita, Sumiko Sakamoto, Ken Ogata, Takehiro Irokawa | ||
Narayama (Shichirô Fukazawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Shôhei Imamura)
Shichirō Fukazawa (深沢 七郎, Fukazawa Shichirō, January 29, 1914 – August 18, 1987) was a Japanese author and guitarist.
Contents
- Narayama Shichir Fukazawa Keisuke Kinoshita Shhei Imamura
- Buchvorstellung Shichiro Fukazawa Narayamalieder Zeichensetzung
- Biography
- Shimanaka Incident
- Selected prizes
- Selected works
- Records
- References
Buchvorstellung: Shichiro Fukazawa, Narayamalieder | Zeichensetzung
Biography
Fukazawa was born in Isawa, Yamanashi, Japan. His first novel, The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō) won the Chūōkōron Prize, and was twice made into a movie script: first by Keisuke Kinoshita in 1958, and again by Shōhei Imamura in 1983. Imamura's film won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or.
Shimanaka Incident
In 1960, Chūōkōron published his satire Furyū mutan (風流夢譚,“The Story of a Dream of Courtly Elegance"). In it the narrator dreams that leftists take over the Imperial Palace and behead Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko before an enthusiastic crowd. This story provoked fury in the Imperial Household Agency and among Japanese ultra-nationalists.
On February 1, 1961, in response to the story Kazutaka Komori, a seventeen-year-old rightist, broke into the home of Shimanaka Hoji, Chūōkōron's president, killed his maid with a sword and severely wounded his wife. Fukazawa went into hiding and was little seen in public afterwards.
The aftermath of the Shimanaka incident (嶋中事件, Shimanaka jiken) meant that criticism of the Imperial Family, and discussion of the role or existence of the Emperor became taboo.