Shichirō Fukazawa
| Shichirō Fukazawa | |
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| Born |
January 29, 1914 Isawa, Japan |
| Died | August 18, 1987 (aged 73) Japan |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Fiction |
Shichirō Fukazawa (深沢 七郎 Fukazawa Shichirō?, January 29, 1914 – August 18, 1987) was a Japanese author and guitarist.
Fukazawa was born in Isawa, Yamanashi, Japan. His first novel, The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考 Narayama bushikō?) won the Chūōkōron Prize, and was twice made into a movie script: first by Keisuke Kinoshita in 1958, and again by Shōhei Imamura in 1983. Imamura's film won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or.
In 1960, Chūōkōron published his satire Furyū mutan (風流夢譚,“The Story of a Dream of Courtly Elegance"). 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.
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