[Obvious] Naoki Prize-winning author Akiyuki Nosaka of 'Grave of the Firefly' and 'American Hijiki' dies

A writer who won the Naoki Prize for the novels 'Grave of the Firefly' and 'American Hijiki' based on his own experiences during and immediately after the defeat, and a lyricist who won the Japan Record Awards Children's Song Award for the nursery rhyme 'Toy Chachacha'. Akiyuki Nosaka has passed away. I was 85 years old.

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Mr. Nosaka was born in Kamakura City on October 10, 1930 (Showa 5). He was adopted by Kobe, but his adoptive father died in the 1945 Kobe air raid and moved to Tokyo. In 1947, my father took over the place that was sent to the juvenile training school for theft and entered the old system Niigata High School.

Entered Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Department of French Studies in 1950. During the part-time job I did during this period when I was enrolled for 7 years, I started writing commercial songs, tales, and TV scripts, and became active as a lyricist for commercial songs. In combination with the composer and Taku Izumi, Piroshki 'Piroshki' from Parnas Confectionery is known.

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One of the songs written by Mr. Nosaka is 'Toy Chacha Cha' (composed by Nobuyoshi Koshibe). Originally made for a music variety show in 1959, it was a big hit when it was arranged and played on NHK's music program for young children 'Uta no Ehon'. It was a work that won the nursery rhyme award at the 5th Japan Record Awards in 1963.

In 1967, he won the 58th Naoki Prize for his novels 'Grave of the Firefly' and 'American Hijiki', which he wrote based on his own experience during and after the war. 'Grave of the Firefly' was later made into an animated film by Director Isao Takahata of Studio Ghibli, and was screened at the same time as 'My Neighbor Totoro' directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Directors Takahata and Miyazaki, who are now known as masters, were not so well known at the time and their grades were not good, but they had a good reputation and were selected as the 6th place in the best ten Japanese movies of Kinema Junpo. It was.

American Hijiki / Grave of the Firefly (Shincho Bunko) | Akiyuki Nosaka | Books | Amazon.co.jp

Mr. Nosaka used the royalties earned from 'Grave of the Firefly' to launch the 'East, West, South, North, Vertical, Horizontal and Diagonal Association' that introduces contemporary Japanese literature, paintings, and music. The poet Ryuichi Tamura , Akutagawa Prize-winning author Saiichi Maruya , Naoki Prize-winning author Ryotaro Shiba , and Akutagawa Prize-winning author Seiko Tanabe, who received the Shihosho, will publish 'Zasshi,' which is said to be a 'phantom magazine.' did.

Zasshi | Akiyuki Nosaka, East, West, South, North, Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal Meeting | Books | Amazon.co.jp

Received the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature for 'Concentric Circle' in 1999 and the Izumi Kyoka Literature Award for 'Bundan' in 2002. I have been living a rehabilitation life since I collapsed due to a cerebral infarction in 2003.

Mr. Nosaka is known for his wide range of activities such as politicians, singers, and talents as well as writers and lyricists, but one of the well-known episodes is 'beating' with movie director Nagisa Oshima, who died in 2013. This is because Mr. Nosaka's congratulatory order was skipped at the party of Mr. Oshima's 30th year of marriage (pearl marriage), and Mr. Nosaka who took the stage intoxicated in the second half finished reading the congratulatory message and at the same time hit Mr. Oshima. , Oshima-san also responded. It is said that the cause was that Mr. Oshima forgot to read Mr. Nosaka's name aloud, or that he misunderstood that Mr. Nosaka had returned, but at a later date, they apologized to each other and settled.

Nagisa Oshima hitting Akiyuki Nosaka-YouTube


The other was when the question of the Japanese language, 'How did the writer write this work?', Asked the writer, and when the daughter asked, 'I wrote while saying hihi because of the deadline.' In the episode, it is about Mr. Nosaka, who was busy at the time when he wrote 'Grave of the Firefly'. In fact, Mr. Nosaka sometimes talked about this episode, but there is a theory that this 'writer' is Hideo Kobayashi, so the exact point is unknown.