Yaeko Nogami

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Nogami Yaeko
Nogami Yaeko
Nogami Yaeko
Born(1885-05-06)6 May 1885
Usuki, Ōita, Japan
Died30 March 1985(1985-03-30) (aged 99)
OccupationWriter
Genrenovels

Yaeko Nogami (野上 弥生子, Nogami Yaeko, 6 May 1885 – 30 March 1985)

Shōwa period
Japan. Her maiden name was Kotegawa Yae.

Early life

Nogami was born in

Noh drama and English literature under Natsume Sōseki. They were married in 1906, but she continued to work towards literary recognition. Her first published work was a short story Enishi ("Ties of Love") in the literary magazine Hototogisu
in 1907.

Literary career

In the 1910s, Nogami submitted poems and short stories to the mainstream

Yuasa Yoshiko and Miyamoto Yuriko, with whom she shared the sentiment that literature must serve a purpose towards increasing morality and social activism. In 1922, she published Kaijin maru ("The Neptune", tr. 1957), a shocking semi-factual account of four men in the crew of a wrecked fishing boat who must struggle with the choice of starvation or cannibalism.[2] This novel was adapted into the 1962 film Ningen directed by Kaneto Shindo
.

Nogami started to explore

Forty-seven Ronin in 1926. That same year, she and her husband translated Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice into Japanese, which was the first translation of Austen into Japanese.[3] Nogami liked Pride and Prejudice so much that in 1928 she published a novel, Machiko, that reset Pride and Prejudice in Taishō era Japan, with the heroine Machiko who was inspired by Elizabeth Bennet, the hero Mr. Kawai who was based on Mr. Darcy, and the villain Seki who was based on Wickham.[4]

As the Japanese government turned increasingly toward totalitarianism and it appeared that war was inevitable, she and her husband traveled to Europe where they witnessed the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and ominous signs that would lead up to World War II. They returned to Japan prior to the outbreak of World War II, and she concentrated on her writing. In the post-war period, she resumed her contacts with Miyamoto Yuriko, and joined her in the foundation of the Shin Nihon Bungakukai.

Her postwar output was prolific and varied, including the Yomiuri Prize-winning 1957 novel Meiro (迷路)[5] and Hideyoshi to Rikyu ("Hideyoshi and Rikyu", 1962–1963), in which she explores the relationship between artist and patron (in this case Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Sen no Rikyū). The latter novel was adapted into the film Rikyu by Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara.

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References

  1. ISBN 978-87-7289-268-9
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  2. ^ 野上弥生子「海神丸」 [Kaijin Maru by Yaeko Nogami] (in Japanese). Nishi-Nippon Shimbun. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  3. ^ Hisamori, Kazuko (Spring 2010). "Elizabeth Bennet Turns Socialist: Nogami Yaeko's Machiko". Persuasions. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  4. ^ Hisamori, Kazuko (Spring 2010). "Elizabeth Bennet Turns Socialist: Nogami Yaeko's Machiko". Persuasions. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  5. ^ "読売文学賞" [Yomiuri Prize for Literature]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  • Copeland, Rebecca. The Modern Murasaki, Writing by Women of Meiji Japan. Columbia University Press (2006).
    ISBN 0-231-13774-5
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