Shichirō Fukazawa
Shichirō Fukazawa was a Japanese author and guitarist.Biography
Fukazawa was born in Isawa, Yamanashi, Japan. His first novel, '' in 1958,
and again by Shōhei Imamura in 1983.
Imamura's film won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or.Shimanaka Incident
In 1960, the literary magazine Chūōkōron published his satire Furyū mutan. 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 meant that criticism of the Imperial Family, and discussion of the role or existence of the Emperor, became taboo.Selected prizes
- 1956 Chūōkōron Prize for The Ballad of Narayama
- 1981 Tanizaki Prize for Michinoku no ningyotachi
Selected works
- Narayamabushi ko, 楢山節考, 1956.
- Tōhoku no Zunmu-tachi, 東北の神武たち, 1957.
- 笛吹川, 1958.
- 言わなければよかったのに日記, 1958.
- 東京のプリンスたち, 1959.
- 千秋楽, 1964.
- 甲州子守唄, 1964.
- 人間滅亡の唄, 1966.
- 庶民烈伝, 1970.
- 盆栽老人とその周辺, 1973.
- 無妙記, 1975.
- 妖木犬山椒, 1975.
- Michinoku no ningyotachi, 1979.
- Chotto ippuku meido no michikusa, Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1983.
- 極楽まくらおとし図, 1984.
Records
- Sobo no mukashigatari
