"Ekimae Ryokan" (Novel)

…After the end of the war, he remained quiet in Koshu and his hometown, but from 1946 he began to work actively as a writer, winning the first Yomiuri Literature Prize for “Closed Today” (1950) and other works. After that, he gradually matured and published a series of works expressing sharp human insight in a refined style, including “Hyōmin Usaburo” (1956), which won him the Art Academy Prize, “Ekimae Ryokan” (1957), “Chinpindo no Shunin” (Master of the Hall of Chinpins) and “Bushu Hachigata Castle.” In “Black Rain” (1966), he succeeded in depicting the disaster of the atomic bomb through the everyday perspective of anonymous ordinary people, and received the Noma Literary Prize. …

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…敗戦前後は甲州や郷里にあって沈黙していたが，46年から旺盛な作家活動をはじめ，《本日休診》(1950)その他により第1回読売文学賞を受けた。以後しだいに円熟味を加え，芸術院賞を得た《漂民宇三郎》(1956)をはじめ，《駅前旅館》(1957)，《珍品堂主人》《武州鉢形城》など鋭い人間洞察を格調ある文体で表現した作品を次々に発表した。《黒い雨》(1966)では原爆の大惨事を無名の庶民の日常的な視点を通して描き出すことに成功して野間文芸賞を受けた。…

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