Jirō Osaragi (大佛 次郎, Osaragi Jirō, 9 October 1897 – 30 April 1973) was the pen-name of a popular Japanese writer in Shōwa period Japan, known primarily...

station in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan Kikyō (novel), 1948 Japanese novel by Jirō Osaragi Kikyō (film) [ja] (帰郷), 1950 Japanese film for which Shin Saburi won...

starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Hideko Takamine. It is based on a novel by Jirō Osaragi. Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and...

by the forty-seven rōnin episode, rendered in the eponymous book by Jirō Osaragi. "羅生門 (Rashōmon) by 寺内タケシとブルージーンズ [Takeshi Terauchi & the Blue Jeans]...

has been told in kabuki, bunraku, Rōkyoku, Kōdan or Rakugo. In 1927, Jirō Osaragi serialized the story in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun under the title...

Kawashima. It was adapted by Kawashima and Shōhei Imamura from a novel by Jirō Osaragi. In post-war Japan, a middle aged family man connects with a woman from...

numerous films and television dramas based on the original novel written by Jirō Osaragi. 1928 black and white Japanese silent film version with benshi accompaniment...

haiku, and another stone monument, engraved with some of the writings of Jirō Osaragi. A portrait of Musō Soseki is considered to be an important cultural...

Kojiki Taishō (乞食大将, Kojiki Taishō) is jidaigeki novel written by Jirō Osaragi in 1945. The novel deals with the warlord Gotō Matabei's life during the...

engineering researcher and professor who developed the split-anode magnetron. Jirō Osaragi (1897–1973). A popular writer in Shōwa period. Junjiro Takakusu (1866–1945)...

ten-hour 2007 special Chūshingura Yōzeiin no Inbō. The 1927 novel by Jirō Osaragi was the basis for the 1964 Taiga drama Akō Rōshi. Eiji Yoshikawa, Seiichi...

a 1992 novel by Matthew Costello Homecoming (Kiryō), a 1948 novel by Jirō Osaragi Homecoming, a 2015 novel in the series The 100 by Kass Morgan Homecoming...

April 28 – Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (born 1882) April 30 – Jirō Osaragi (大佛 次郎, Haruhiku Nojiri), Japanese novelist (born 1897) May 21 – Carlo...

fame playing Kurama Tengu, a character in the Bakumatsu era created by Jirō Osaragi in his novels. In the 1950s he portrayed the Emperor Meiji in several...

Cop (1989 film)” appeared at the beginning of Kurama Tengu (a novel by Jirō Osaragi) and became a hot topic. 14 1990 (Heisei 2) Best Work Award Best Director...

produced by Toei, and Shigeru Okada. It is based on the novel written by Jiro Osaragi. Forty-seven Ronin Other films about Forty-seven ronin: The 47 Ronin...

president of Osaka University and served on the screening committee of the Jirō Osaragi Prize, and the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities. March...

English novelist and dramatist of Irish descent (died 1985) October 4 – Jirō Osaragi (大佛 次郎, Haruhiku Nojiri), Japanese novelist (died 1973) October 17 –...

He was a brother of the novelist Nojiri Haruhikoˀ, whose pen name was Osaragi Jirō. In 1930 he coined the Japanese word Meiōsei (冥王星, "Star of the King...

Mifune. It was produced by Toho Studios. The film, based on a novel by Jirō Osaragi, which was previously filmed in 1934 by Minoru Murata, is about a Japanese...

1964. Tanizaki Prize, 1967. Noma Prize, 1973. Yomiuri Prize, 1982. Jiro Osaragi Prize (Asahi Shimbun), 1983. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1994. Order of...

Book of Sei Shōnagon, Oxford University Press, 1967 The Journey, by Jirō Osaragi, Charles E. Tuttle, 1967 The Life of an Amorous Woman, by Ihara Saikaku...

kōdoku 1971: Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for Hōjōki shiki 1977: Jirō Osaragi Prize for Goya 1977: Lotus Prize for Literature 1994: Asahi Prize 1998:...

Kinoshita (Osaka, 1955) Yōkihi (Yang Guifei), opera in 3 acts, text by Jirō Osaragi (Tokyo, 1958) Futari Shizuka, dance drama (1961) Hikarigoke (Luminous...

Asahi Shimbun-sha awarded Mainichi Publishing Culture Award awarded Jirō Osaragi Prize 2010 movie (Villain) 5 Eigahen (映画篇) Kazuki Kaneshiro 227.5 Shūeisha...

Chiri, 1954 Eiji Yoshikawa, novelist, 1955 Shikō Munakata, artist, 1964 Jirō Osaragi, writer, 1964 Akira Kurosawa, film director, 1965 Haruko Sugimura, actress...

jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in 1979. It is based on Jirō Osaragi's novel of the same title. It depicts the story of the revenge of the...

a passion which he shared with fellow author and Kamakura resident Jirō Osaragi. Muramatsu died in 1961, and his grave is at the temple of Kakuon-ji...

as introducing postwar Japanese fiction to American audiences with Jirō Osaragi's Homecoming and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles in 1955. He...

in Kyoto. Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha, 1965. Photographs of Kyoto. Text by Jirō Osaragi. (in Japanese) Ishi no tera (石の寺). Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha, 1965. Text by...