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Ariyoshi Sawako
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- She was born in Wakayama City in 1930. She is one of Japan’s leading female novelists. She is frequently credited as the original author in many films, plays, and television series. She was also a scriptwriter. Her scripts include Ishi no Niwa (The Stone Garden, NHK, 1957), which received the Encouragement Prize (television category) at the Art Festival, and Uttsui Anju-san (The Beautiful Abbess,1958 ), an adaptation of her own original work broadcast by Radio Tokyo (now TBS). While studying at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, she was an active writer who aspired to become a theater critic. Her debut novel was Rakuyō no Fu (Verse of the Setting Sun) in 1954, and her 1959 publication of Kinokawa (The River Ki) established her as a major author. Many of her works were adapted for television. A few of the most prominent include Kinokawa (The River Ki), Kōge (Incense and Flowers), Sanbaba (Three Old Ladies), Sukezaemon Yondaiki (Four Generations of Sukezaemon), Ichi no Ito (The First String), Hanaoka Seishū no Tsuma (The Doctor’s Wife), Izumo no Okuni (Kabuki Dancer), Fushin no Toki (The Time of Distrust), Shibazakura (Moss Phlox), Yūhigaoka Building #3, Kōkotsu no Hito (The Twilight Years), Boke no Hana (Flower of Quince), Boshi Hen’yo (Transformation between Mother and Daughter), Kazunomiya-sama Otome (Her Highness Princess Kazu), Akujo ni Tsuite (About a Wicked Woman), and Kaimakuberu wa Hanayaka ni (A Brilliant Opening Bell). She died of acute heart failure in August 1984 at the age of 53.
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