Yasushi Inoue

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Yasushi Inoue


Born
in Asahikawa, Japan
May 06, 1907

Died
January 29, 1991

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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 great humor, pathos, and wisdom like Shirobamba and Asunaro Monogatari, which depicted the setting of the author's own life — Japan of the early to mid twentieth century — in revealing perspective.

1936 Chiba Kameo Prize --- Ruten,流転
1950 Akutagawa Prize --- Tōgyu,闘牛
1957 Ministry of Education Prize for Literature --- The Roof Tile of Tempyo,天平の甍
1959 Mainichi Press Prize --- Tun-huang,敦煌
1963 Yomiuri Prize --- Fū
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Life of a Counterfeiter

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Mi madre

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Furin Kazan

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Le Maître de thé

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Tun-huang

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Bullfight

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Le Loup Bleu

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Shirobamba: A Childhood in ...

3.91 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions
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井上靖全集(第7巻) 井上靖全集(第8巻) 井上靖全集(第9巻) 井上靖全集(第10巻) 井上靖全集(第11巻) 井上靖全集(第12巻) 井上靖全集(第13巻)
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“I want to live so that everything around me remains clean. I want to think about other people more. Pushing people out of the way and trying to climb over their heads are no good. Chasing nothing but money – that's no good eiher, like knocking your brains out trying to be a little more famous, a little more powerful. To hear the birds song and to say "Ah, they're singing!" To see the flowers and to say "Ah they're blooming!" That,s the way to live.”
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“I longed to devote my life to something valuable with a fervor that would consume my being. Young people today probably think the same way. But in our time we were not left to ourselves as they are. All of us believed in some kind of god. We believed in a scholar or in scholarship itself; we believed that right actually exists. All that kind of thing has been swept away, and philosophy, religion and morality must be created anew, from the ground up.”
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“Man is a foolish creature who wants above all to have someone else know about him.”
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