Yoshie Hotta
Yoshie Hotta in 1954
Yoshie Hotta in 1954
Born(1918-07-17)17 July 1918
Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan
Died5 September 1998(1998-09-05) (aged 80)
OccupationWriter
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKeio University

Yoshie Hotta (堀田善衛, Hotta Yoshie, July 17, 1918 – September 5, 1998)[1] was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, noted for his political consciousness.[2] His most acclaimed works include Hiroba no kōdoku (lit. "Solitude in the Public Square", 1951), which was awarded the Akutagawa Prize, and Kage no bubun (Shadow Pieces, 1952).[1][2] Hotta has also been associated with the Atomic bomb literature genre.[3]

Biography

A graduate from Keio University, Hotta already published poems and essays in the literary journal Hihyō during his student years.[4] He experienced the end of the Pacific War in Shanghai, where he stayed for two years to write for the Chinese Nationalist Party before returning to Japan in 1947.[1] His early works centered on Japan's recent history, thematising events like the bombing of Hiroshima (in Kage no bubun, 1952, or Shimpan, 1963) or the Nanjing Massacre (in Jikan, 1955),[5] and life in Japan during the early post-war years.[2] Later, he turned his attention also to International relationships and history, attending meetings of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association and writing books about historic figures like Goya, Montaigne and François de La Rochefoucauld.[1][6][7]

Selected works

  • 1951: Hiroba no kōdoku
  • 1952: Kage no bubun (Shadow Pieces)
  • 1952: Kankan
  • 1952: Rekishi
  • 1955: Jikan
  • 1957: Indo de kangaeta koto
  • 1963: Shimpan (Judgment)
  • 1971: Hōjōki shiki
  • 1974–77: Goya
  • 1991–94: Misheru jōkan no hito
  • 1998: Ra Roshufūkō kōshaku densetsu

Awards

Adaptations

Hiroba no kōdoku was adapted into a film in 1953, written by Katsuhito Inomata and directed by and starring Shin Saburi.[8]

Together with Shin'ichirō Nakamura and Takehiko Fukunaga, Hotta wrote the original story which was later adapted into the kaiju film Mothra, first published in Asahi Shimbun.[9][10]

Bibliography

  • Hotta, Yoshie (1994). Judgment. Translated by Tsukui, Nobuko. Osaka: Kansai Gaidai University.
  • Rimer, J. Thomas; Gessel, Van C. (2007). "Hotta Yoshie (includes one translated chapter of Kage no bubun)". The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231138048.
  • O'Neill, P.G. (2001). "Shadow Pieces (Kage no bubun)". Collected Writings of P.G. O'Neill: The Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan. Vol. 4. Tokyo: Japan Library and Edition Synapse. ISBN 1-873410-50-6.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "堀田善衛 (Hotta Yoshie)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Rimer, J. Thomas; Gessel, Van C. (2007). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present. Columbia University Press. p. 107. ISBN 9780231138048.
  3. ↑ "原爆文学 (Atomic bomb literature)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Miller, J. Scott (2010). The A to Z of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater. Scarecrow Press. p. 37. ISBN 9780810876156.
  5. ↑ "Heftarchiv – Autoren: Hotta, Yoshie". Sinn und Form (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  6. ↑ Katō, Shūichi (1997). A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. Japan Library. p. 347.
  7. ↑ "Hotta Yoshie Bunko". Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  8. ↑ "広場の孤独 (Hiroba no kōdoku)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  9. ↑ "モスラ (Mosura)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  10. ↑ Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. pp. 183–184. ISBN 978-1461673743.
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