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    Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治, Yoshikawa Eiji, August 11, 1892 – September 7, 1962) was a Japanese historical novelist. Among his best-known novels are revisions...
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  • Epic Novel of the Samurai Era, is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the life and deeds of legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi...
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  • baseball player Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治, 1892–1962), Japanese writer Hajime Yoshikawa (吉川 元, born 1967), Japanese politician Haruko Yoshikawa (吉川 春子, born...
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  • The novel Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan, by Eiji Yoshikawa, translated by William Scott Wilson Taiko (album), by Danger Tyco (disambiguation)...
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  • account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine...
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    There have been works of fiction made about or featuring Musashi. Eiji Yoshikawa's novelization (originally a 1930s daily newspaper serial) has greatly...
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  • Tsuruta as Kojirō Sasaki. The films are based on Musashi, a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa about the famous duelist and author of The Book of Five Rings. The three...
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  • actor Eiji Yoshikawa (吉川 英治, 1892–1962), Japanese historical novelist Eiji Asuma (明日真 映児), a character in the manga series Psychometrer Eiji Eiji Date...
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  • and the 2012 Barry Award for Best First Novel. Higashino received the Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Prize in 2014 for Inori no Maku ga Oriru Toki (祈りの幕が下りる時, When...
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    in several places: He plays a central role in the novel, Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa. His life is described in a parallel storyline. In various film adaptations...
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    Land Force" towards the end of the war. The author was naval ensign Eiji Yoshikawa. Amekura p.87 Kimura pp68-69. Statement by Navy Colonel Suekuni Masao...
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  • The New York Times Archived April 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine on Eiji Yoshikawa: "It has remained on the Japanese best-seller list ever since its initial...
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    style for which the work was originally intended. Historical novelist Eiji Yoshikawa published a prose rendering in the Asahi Weekly in 1950, under the title...
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    A history of Japan', vol. 2 (1334-1615). Stanford University Press Eiji Yoshikawa, 1993: Taiko. A. Knaus Verlag: München. ISBN 3813503038 Samurai-archives...
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    源頼朝: 時代代表日本英雄伝. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1987. Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1989) Yoshikawa Eiji Rekishi Jidai Bunko (Eiji Yoshikawa's Historical Fiction), Vols. 41–42: Minamoto...
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  • 29th NHK taiga drama. It is based on the 1958 novel Shihon Taiheiki by Eiji Yoshikawa. It had an average viewership rating of 26.0%, peaking at 34.6%. The...
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  • Hichō (鳴門秘帖, Naruto Hichō) is a series of jidaigeki novels written by Eiji Yoshikawa. The stories were originally serialized as a serial in the Japanese...
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  • department of economics at Kanagawa University. Yamamoto won the 1999 Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Authors [ja] for Loveholic. Her novel Planaria was awarded...
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  • trains on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line Musashi (novel), a 1935 novel by Eiji Yoshikawa Musashi's, a Japanese feline musical group Musashi, a 1974 manga written...
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  • include the Shinsho Taikōki by Eiji Yoshikawa, Ihon Taikōki by Sōhachi Yamaoka, and Shinshi Taikōki by Ryōtarō Shiba. Yoshikawa's novel was the basis for the...
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  • manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's retelling of the 14th century Chinese literary classic Romance of the...
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    実錄竹中半兵衛と黒田官兵衛. Tokyo: Murata Shoten 村田書店, 1988. Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1989) Yoshikawa Eiji Rekishi Jidai Bunko (Eiji Yoshikawa's Historical Fiction), Vol. 44: Kuroda...
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    believe that this was a later invention by Japanese storytellers such as Eiji Yoshikawa. Zhou Yu was from Shu County (舒縣), Lujiang Commandery (廬江郡), which is...
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    Samurai Trilogy of historical adventures. The film is adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, originally released as a serial in the Japanese newspaper...
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    is the subject of a Kyōgen farce called "Tsuen" and also appears in Eiji Yoshikawa's epic novel Musashi. Today it is operated by the 24th generation of...
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    final film of Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy. The film is adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, originally released as a serial in the Japanese newspaper...
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    frequently referenced in Japanese literature and film, such as in Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa, Humanity and Paper Balloons, and Rashomon. In Puccini's 1904 opera...
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    film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on a prose version by Eiji Yoshikawa of a Japanese epic poem, The Tale of the Heike. It is Mizoguchi's second...
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    was Inoue's next manga, adapted from the fictionalized accounts by Eiji Yoshikawa of the samurai Miyamoto Musashi, which he began drawing in 1998. The...
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  • Pitt Clive Cussler English 24 1973–present 120 million 宮本武蔵 (Musashi) Eiji Yoshikawa Japanese 7 1935–1939 120 million The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis...
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