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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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  • Eiji Yoshikawa, also known by the title of "The Compassionate Pugilist," is a Japanese boxer, coach, author, documentarian and peace educator. Yoshikawa...
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    Cultural Prize The Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature The Yoshikawa Eiji Bunko Prize The Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers The Yoshikawa Eiji Cultural Prize...
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    a single pine tree still remain. Benkei on the Bridge Funa Benkei Yoshikawa, Eiji (1956). The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of...
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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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  • numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature, the Shiba Ryotaro Prize,...
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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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    ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301 (in Japanese) Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1989) Yoshikawa Eiji Rekishi Jidai Bunko (Eiji Yoshikawa's Historical Fiction), Vol. 46: Taira no...
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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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    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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    won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for his historical novel Tokugawa Ieyasu. 1958 - Chunichi Prize 1967 - Shin Hasegawa Prize 1968 - Yoshikawa Eiji Prize 1973-...
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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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  • Japanese Horror Novel Award (ja): Kuroi Ie (Black House) 2000 - 21st Yoshikawa Eiji Award Candidate (ja) and 13th Yamamoto Shugōrō Award Candidate (ja):...
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  • success. His following work Ahiru to Kamo no Koin Rokkā won the 25th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers. Jūryoku Piero (2003), Children (2004), Grasshopper...
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  • Riku Onda (恩田 陸, Onda Riku), is a Japanese writer. Onda has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers...
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  • of historical fiction in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan. He won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature and the Naoki Prize. Saotome's grandfather was...
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    History, Ryukyu Wind. He won numerous literary awards, including the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature and the Naoki Prize. Roots of Dried Grass (枯草の根)...
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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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    Japan, 1334–1615. Stanford University Press. p. 278. ISBN 0804705259. Yoshikawa, Eiji. (2000). Taiko, p. 421. "Oichi + Jigglypuff - Pokémon Conquest characters"...
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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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    received the Mystery Writers of Japan Prize, Kikuchi Kan Prize, and the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature. In 1952 he was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for...
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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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  • (1913–2012) Yoshida Sunao (1969 – July 15, 2004) Yoshida Takuro (born 1946) Yoshikawa Eiji (August 11, 1892 – September 7, 1962) Yoshii Isamu (October 8, 1886...
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    and The Sacrilegious Hero) credits its story as "from the novel by Yoshikawa Eiji", which in turn is a 1950 retelling of the 14th-century epic The Tale...
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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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  • 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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  • sengoku and the beginning of the Edo periods. The series was based on the Yoshikawa Eiji novel that forms the basis for most modern fiction based on the events...
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  • Literary Prize 1999 Eiji (エイジ) - 14th Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize 2000 Bitamin F (ビタミンF) - 124th Naoki Prize 2001 Jūjika (十字架) - 44th Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize...
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    (1967). The Ōnin war: history of its origins and background, p. 75. Yoshikawa, Eiji. (1995). Musashi, p. 94. Hall, John Whitney. (1999). The Cambridge...
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  • From 1945 to the Present, Columbia University Press, 2007) 1988 - Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers: Japanese Entrance Exams for Earnest Young Men...
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