Nomura Kodo - Nomura Kodo

Novelist. Born in Hikobe Village, Shiwa County, Iwate Prefecture (present-day Shiwa Town). His real name was Osakazu. In 1897 (Meiji 30), he entered the Prefectural Morioka Middle School. He became acquainted with Kindaichi Kyosuke and Ishikawa Takuboku. He entered the law department of Tokyo Imperial University, but dropped out due to his father's death. In 1912, he joined the Hochi Shimbun newspaper. He serialized character reviews and was also known for his record reviews under the name "Araebisu." When All Yomimono was launched in 1931 (Showa 6), he was asked to write a detective story, and he created Zenigata Heiji from the special skill of Zhang Qing, the "missing arrow" in Suikoden, a novel he loved, who threw stones without missing a beat. In 1958, he won the 6th Kikuchi Kan Award for his serialization of "Zenigata Heiji Torimono Hikae" which ran for 27 years. His other works include "Gojusan-tsugi (The 53 Stations of 30,000 Ryo)" (1934), which tells the story of the struggle for 30,000 ryo during the turbulent end of the Edo period, and the essay "Kodo Hyakuwa (One Hundred Stories of Kodo)" (1959). The Nomura Kodo Memorial Library is located in the central community center of his hometown, Shiwa-cho. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure Third Class.

[Yamazaki Kazuaki]

"The Possibilities of Popular Literature, by Hideki Ozaki and Michitaro Tada (1971, Kawade Shobo Shinsha) " "The Literary World and the Outside: An Anecdote of Popular Literature, by Hideki Ozaki (1975, Chikumashobo)"

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小説家。岩手県紫波(しわ)郡彦部村（現紫波町）に生まれる。本名長一(おさかず)。1897年（明治30）県立盛岡中学に入学。金田一京助(きんだいちきょうすけ)、石川啄木(いしかわたくぼく)らを識(し)る。東京帝国大学法科に入学。父の死により中退。1912年報知新聞入社。人物評論などを連載、また「あらえびす」の名でレコード評論でも知られた。1931年（昭和6）『オール読物』創刊に際し、捕物帳(とりものちょう)の執筆を依頼され、愛読した『水滸伝(すいこでん)』の没羽箭張清(ぼつうせんちょうせい)の百発百中の投石の特技から銭形平次(ぜにがたへいじ)を創造する。27年間にわたる連載『銭形平次捕物控(ひかえ)』により1958年第6回菊池寛賞を受賞。そのほか、幕末動乱期3万両をめぐる攻防をつづった『三万両五十三次』（1934）、随筆『胡堂百話』（1959）がある。郷里紫波町中央公民館内に野村胡堂記念文庫が設けられている。没後勲三等瑞宝章(ずいほうしょう)を受ける。

［山崎一穎］

『尾崎秀樹・多田道太郎著『大衆文学の可能性』（1971・河出書房新社）』▽『尾崎秀樹著『文壇うちそと〈大衆文学逸史〉』（1975・筑摩書房）』

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