Eiji Yoshikawa

Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川英治) (August 11th 1892, Kuragi, Japan - September 7th 1962, Tōkyō, Japan) is a writer of language Japanese E born in 1892 in the Préfecture of Kanagawa close to Tōkyō. It is mainly influenced in major traditional writings in Asia such as says it of Heike, says it of Genji, the Chroniques of the Three Kingdoms, At the edge of water. It publishes in twenty years its first texts in reviews of Tōkyō. Its fertile literary career will do of him one of the largest Japanese novelists of the century and even of the world. He dies of a cancer in 1962, covered of glory. Its work is marked by the writing of the biographical novel of Miyamoto Musashi, a legendary Samurai. It was drawn with more than 120 million specimens.

Life

Born Hidetsugu Yoshikawa (吉川英次) in the Prefecture from Kanagawa, currently part of Yokohama, it leaves the elementary school with eleven to work following businesses lost by his/her father. At 18 years, after having an accident undergoes where it comes very close to death, it leaves its native province to join Tokyo the capital to follow a formation as an apprentice in a workshop of gold lacquering. During the same period it is interested in the Haiku comic and joined a club of poetry in which it starts to write haiku under the pseudonym of " Kijiro".

In 1914, with says it Enoshima , it gains the first price of a contest of writing organized by the editor Kodansha. It then joined the newspaper Maiyu Shinbun in 1921, and the following year starts to write and publish serials while starting with the life of Shinran .

It Marie with Yasu Akazawa in 1923, year of the great earthquake of Kanto. This experiment out of the commun run reinforces its will to make writing its career and its life. The following years it publishes some stories in periodicals published by Kodansha. Seeking an adequate pseudonym it changes 19 times of names before choosing definitively Eiji Yoshikawa like pen name. Its publications becoming famous, a public insatiable and numerous recognizes it from now on under this name as of the publication of Naruto Hicho.

In beginning of the year 30, its writing becomes regularly introspective and reflects its personal concerns. But in 1935 with the beginning of the serial Musashi, romançant and celebrating the life of famous the Ronin Miyamoto Musashi, in the newspaper Asahi, its writing takes undoubtedly a historical style of fiction.

During the conquest of China by Japan in 1937 it is dispatched on the battle field as a special correspondent by the newspaper Asahi. It is during these years that he divorces Yasu Akazawa and remarie with Fumiko Ikedo.

At the end of the Second world war it ceases writing and settles with Yoshino (from now on Oumeshi) in the peripheries of Tokyo, but it starts again to write since 1947. Its principal work according to war is the development of the new chronicles of the Clan Heike (1950).

Principal Works

Musashi (宮本武蔵)

Pierre and the Saber

the Perfect Chronic Light

of the clan Heike ( Shin Heike Monogatari , 新家物語)
Naruto Hitcho (鳴門秘帖)

External bond

portrait of Yoshikawa

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