Yutaka Mafune

Yutaka Mafune
Mafune Yutaka
Born	16 February 1902(1902-02-16) Koriyama, Fukushima Japan
Died	3 August 1977(1977-08-03) (aged 75) Tokyo Japan
Occupation	Writer
Genres	stage plays

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Mafune".

Yutaka Mafune (真船 豊, Mafune Yutaka^?, 16 February 1902 – 3 August 1977) was a Japanese playwright active during the Showa period of Japan.

Biography

Mafune was born in what is now Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture. He studied at the Literature Department of Waseda University in Tokyo, where he was influenced by Irish theater, and where he started to write one-act plays. He left school to join a leftist agrarian movement in the late 1920s. Some of his early works, including Itachi ("Weasel", 1934) depict the lives of peasants. He then turned his attention to the urban proletariat with Hadaka no machi ("Naked City", 1936), which was subsequently made into a movie.

After World War II, Mafune turned towards works of comedy and farce. He also wrote scripts for radio dramas.

See also

• Japanese literature
• List of Japanese authors

References

• Powell, Brian. Japan's Modern Theatre: A Century of Change and Continuity. RoutledgeCurzon (2002). ISBN 1873410301

External links

• Monument to Mafune Yutaka in Koriyama City

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Name	Mafune, Yutaka
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Date of birth	16 February 1902
Place of birth	Koriyama, Fukushima Japan
Date of death	3 August 1977
Place of death	Tokyo Japan