Cape Ashizuri

…He was a member of the Nihon Rekishi and Jinmin Bunko before the war, and published works such as Fig (1935), but he gained full recognition after the war with his historical novels such as Fall of the Castle (1949). He also won the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for his semi-autobiographical work Cape Ashizuri (1949), and his collection of short stories Ehon (1951), which included Ehon and Kikuzaka (both 1950). His collection of letters to his wife Chiyo, who died of stomach cancer, Memories of Love (1957), was widely read. …

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…戦前に《日暦》《人民文庫》の同人であり，《無花果》(1935)などを発表したが，本格的に認められたのは《落城》(1949)に代表される戦後の歴史小説によってである。さらに半自伝的作品《足摺岬（あしずりみさき）》(1949)，《絵本》《菊坂》(ともに1950)などを収めた短編集《絵本》(1951)によって毎日出版文化賞を受賞。胃癌で死んだ妻千代との書簡集《愛のかたみ》(1957)は広く読まれた。…

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