Keiji Nakazawa

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name = Keiji Nakazawa


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birth_date = 1939
birth_place = Hiroshima
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nationality = Japanese
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known_for = "Barefoot Gen"
occupation = Manga artistnihongo|Keiji Nakazawa|中沢 啓治|Nakazawa Keiji|born 1939 is a Japanese manga artist and writer.

He was born in Hiroshima, and was in the city when it was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. All of his family members who had not been evacuated died in the bombing except for his mother, and an infant sister who died several weeks after the bombing.

In 1961, Nakazawa moved to Tokyo to become a full-time cartoonist, and produced short pieces for manga anthologies such as "Shonen Gaho", "Shonen King", and "Bokura".

In 1966, following the death of his mother, Nakazawa returned to his memories of the destruction of Hiroshima and began to express them in his stories. "Kuroi Ame ni Utarete" "(Struck by Black Rain)", the first of a series of five books, was a fictional story of Hiroshima survivors involved in the postwar black market. In 1972, Nakazawa chose to portray his own experience directly in the story "Ore wa Mita" ("I Saw It"), published in "Monthly Shonen Jump" (In 1982, the story was translated into English and published as a one-shot comic book by Educomics as "I Saw It").

Immediately after finishing "I Saw It", Nakazawa began his major work, "Hadashi no Gen" "(Barefoot Gen)". This series, which eventually filled ten volumes (six volumes in English translation), was based on the same events as "I Saw It" but fictionalized, with the young Gen as a stand-in for the author. "Barefoot Gen" depicted the bombing and its aftermath in graphic detail, but also turned a critical eye on the militarization of Japanese society in the World War II years, and on the sometimes abusive dynamics of the traditional family. "Barefoot Gen" was made into an animated film, released in 1983. It was followed three years later by a sequel. It was recently made into a live action tv drama.

Works

*nihongo|"Ano Machi Kono Machi"|あの街この街
*nihongo|"Kuroi Chinmoku no hate ni"|黒い沈黙の果てに
*nihongo|"Itsuka Mita Aoi Sora"|いつか見た青い空
*nihongo|"Okinawa"|オキナワ
*nihongo|"Kuroi ame ni Utarete"|黒い雨にうたれて
*nihongo|"Geki no Kawa"|ゲキの河
*nihongo|"Chinchin Densha no Shi"|チンチン電車の詩
*nihongo|"Maboroshi no 36 Go"|幻の36号
*nihongo|"Yūkari no Kinoshita de"|ユーカリの木の下で
*nihongo|"Ore wa Mita"|おれは見た
*nihongo|"Kuroi Kawa no Nagare ni"|黒い河の流れに
*nihongo|"Kuroi Hato no Mure ni"|黒い鳩の群れに
*nihongo|"Ītama Ippon"|いいタマ一本
*nihongo|"Aru Nichi Totsuzen ni"|ある日突然に
*nihongo|"Chie to Danbira"|チエと段平
*nihongo|"Aru Koi no Monogatari"|ある恋の物語
*nihongo|"Ohayō"|おはよう
*nihongo|"Yakyū Baka"|野球バカ
*nihongo|"Ano Machi Kono Machi"|あの街この街
*nihongo|"Guzu Roku Kōshinkyoku"|グズ六行進曲
*nihongo|"Genkotsu Iwata"|げんこつ岩太
*nihongo|"Yūkari no Kinoshita de"|ユーカリの木の下で
*nihongo|"Hiroshima Kāpu Tanjō Monogatari"|広島カープ誕生物語
*nihongo|"Aku Tarō"|悪太郎
*nihongo|"Okonomi Yachi-yan"|お好み八ちゃん
*nihongo|"Itsuka Mita Aoi Sora"|いつか見た青い空
*nihongo|"Otoko Nara Shōri no Utawo"|男なら勝利の歌を
*nihongo|"Karē Baka"|カレーバカ
*nihongo|"Warera Eien ni"|われら永遠に
*nihongo|"Susume!! Donganden"|進め!!ドンガンデン
*nihongo|"Bōken Jijimu"|冒険児ジム
*nihongo|"Kaijū Shima no Kessen Gojira no Musuko"|怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子
*nihongo|"Kuro Gaita Natsu"|クロがいた夏
*nihongo|"Murasaki Shoku no Pika"|むらさき色のピ
*nihongo|"Barefoot Gen"|はだしのゲン

ee also

* "" (2007)

External links

* [http://www.tcj.com/256/i_nakazawa.html Nakazawa interview] from "The Comics Journal"
*cite web
last = Kakinuma
first = Hideyuki
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title = Hibakusha: Fury -- at the bomb, the Americans, and Japan's wartime leaders
work = Hibakusha Project
publisher =Mainichi Shimbun
date = 2006-10-25
url = http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/features/archive/news/2006/10/20061025p2g00m0fe005000c.html
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accessdate = 2006-12-20