was a Japanese

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 author

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 and guitarist

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Biography

Fukazawa was born in Isawa, Yamanashi

Isawa, Yamanashi

was a town located in Higashiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi, Japan.On October 12, 2004 Isawa was merged the towns of Ichinomiya, Misaka and Yatsushiro, the village of Sakaigawa, all from Higashiyatsushiro District, and the town of Kasugai, from Higashiyamanashi District, to form the new city of...

, Japan

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. His first novel, won the Chūōkōron Prize, and was twice made into a movie script: first by Keisuke Kinoshita

Keisuke Kinoshita

was a Japanese film director.Although lesser known internationally than his fellow filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa , Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu , Keisuke Kinoshita was nonetheless a household figure at home beloved by audience and critics alike, especially in the forties through the sixties...

 in 1958, and again by Shōhei Imamura

Shohei Imamura

was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...

 in 1983. Imamura's film won the Cannes Film Festival

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 Palme d'Or

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In 1960, Chūōkōron

Chuokoron

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published his satire Furyu mutan (“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

Akihito

is the current , the 125th emperor of his line according to Japan's traditional order of succession. He acceded to the throne in 1989.-Name:In Japan, the emperor is never referred to by his given name, but rather is referred to as "His Imperial Majesty the Emperor" which may be shortened to . In...

 and Princess Michiko

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 before an enthusiastic crowd. This story provoked fury in the Imperial Household Agency

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 and among Japanese ultra-nationalists. On February 1, 1961, a seventeen-year-old rightist broke into the home of Chūōkōron's president, Shimanaka Hoji, killed a maid with a sword

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, and severely wounded Shimanaka's wife in response to the story. Fukazawa went into hiding and was little seen in public afterwards.

Selected prizes

• 1956 Chūōkōron Prize for The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama bushiko, 楢山節考)
• 1981 Tanizaki Prize
  Tanizaki Prize
  The Tanizaki Prize , named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards. It was established in 1965 by the publishing company Chūō Kōronsha Inc. to commemorate its 80th anniversary as a publisher...
  
  for Michinoku no ningyotachi (みちのくの人形たち)

Selected works

• Narayama bushiko, 楢山節考, 1956.
• 東北の神武たち, 1957.
• 笛吹川, 1958.
• 言わなければよかったのに日記, 1958.
• 東京のプリンスたち, 1959.
• 千秋楽, 1964.
• 甲州子守唄, 1964.
• 人間滅亡の唄, 1966.
• 庶民烈伝, 1970.
• 盆栽老人とその周辺, 1973.
• 無妙記, 1975.
• 妖木犬山椒, 1975.
• Michinoku no ningyotachi (みちのくの人形たち), 1979.
• Chotto ippuku meido no michikusa (ちょっと 一服 冥土 の 道草), Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1983.
• 極楽まくらおとし図, 1984.