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Yasushi Inoue (井上靖, Inoue Yasushi, May 6, 1907 – January 29, 1991) was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, noted for his historical and autobiographical fiction. His most acclaimed works include The Bullfight ( Tōgyū, 1949), The Roof Tile of Tempyō ( Tenpyō no iraka, 1957) and Tun-huang ( Tonkō, 1959).
May 2, 2024 · Inoue Yasushi was a Japanese novelist noted for his historical fiction, notably Tempyō no iraka (1957; The Roof Tile of Tempyō), which depicts the drama of 8th-century Japanese monks traveling to China and bringing back Buddhist texts and other artifacts to Japan.
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Jan 29, 1991 · Yasushi Inoue (井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.
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The Hunting Gun a.k.a. Shotgun (Japanese: 猟銃, Hepburn: Ryōjū) is a Japanese novella by Yasushi Inoue first published in 1949. Spanning in time between the mid 1930s and late 1940s, it tells the story of a love affair between a married man and his wife's cousin, recounted through three long letters.
Apr 3, 2015 · Yasushi Inoue has never enjoyed such international popularity, but his enormous oeuvre — begun in midcentury and only in midlife, after a successful career as a newspaperman — made him one of...
Aug 19, 2014 · Yasushi Inoue did not make his debut in literature until 1949 at the age of forty-two. He did so with the two short novels Bullfight and The Hunting Gun ; the former won him the prestigious Akutagawa Prize—the Japanese equivalent of the Pulitzer—and he went on to write over fifty novels and win every major Japanese literary prize, including ...
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From THE HUNTING GUN by Yasushi Inoue, translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich, 1949/2013. A clever and elaborate framing device sets up a story of love and deception: 🐕 A poet observes a hunter walking with his dog on a country trail. He has a vintage hunting gun over his shoulder.
