In the history of literature, Eiji Yoshikawa is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Eiji Yoshikawa as Japanese historical novelist (1892–1962).
Eiji Yoshikawa was born in 1892. His recorded nationality is Japan.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Eiji Yoshikawa is described as novelist, writer and screenwriter.
Eiji Yoshikawa is associated first and foremost with revisions of classics and retelling of historical events through the lens of semi-biographical fiction books. A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
His work was formally recognised with the Order of Culture, Kikuchi Kan Prize and Person of Cultural Merit.
That the work was done from Japan matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 1962, at 70. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Worked as novelist, writer and screenwriter
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