Gomi Kosuke

Infobox Writer
name = Kosuke Gomi


caption = Gomi Kosuke
birthdate = birth date|1921|12|20|df=y
birthplace = Osaka, Japan
deathdate = death date and age|1980|4|1|1921|12|20|df=y)
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occupation = writer
genre = historical novels, popular fiction
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influenced = nihongo|Kosuke Gomi|五味康祐|Gomi Kosuke (20 December 1921 – 1 April 1980) was the pen-name of a novelist in Showa period Japan, known primarily for popular fiction on historical themes. His real name was Gomi Yasusuke.

Biography

Gomi was born in Osaka, and graduated from the Literature Department of Meiji Gakuin University. Conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, he met author Yasuda Yojuro, who encouraged him to pursue his interest in history and historical fiction with a career as a writer. After the end of the war, he began writing popular fiction with swordsmen of the Edo period as his protagonists. In particular, he wrote many stories using the historical Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi as his hero. He also created a character named "Aoi Shingo", a fictional illegitimate son of Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, who travels around Japan in disguise, righting wrongs done by the government.

Gomi won the 28th Akutagawa Prize in 1952.

His novel, "The Secret Scrolls", was made into a movie "Yagyu Secret Scrolls" staring Toshirō Mifune in 1958.

In addition to his career as a writer, Gomi was also a noted music critic of classical music, and also a reviewer and critic of audio systems. He was a man of wide ranging hobbies, from mahjong to palmistry, and he left numerous monographs of his hobbies as well.

His grave is at the temple of Kencho-ji in Kamakura, Kanagawa.

ee also

* Japanese literature
* List of Japanese authors