Misa Yamamura

In this Japanese name, the family name is Yamamura, Kimura.

Misa Yamamura (山村美紗 (Yamamura Misa), nee 木村 (Kimura) August 25, 1934 - September 5, 1996) is a Japanese novelist and a mystery writer favored as the queen of both mystery novels and tricks in Japan,[1] often compared to Agatha Christie.[2] Her spouse is Takashi Yamamura, a painter and a retired high school teacher.[3][4] Her younger brother is Hiroshi Kimura, a professor of Political Science[5] and her daughter is Momiji Yamamura, an actress.[6]

Biography

Born in Kyoto, Misa Yamamura graduated from Kyoto Prefectural University Faculty of Letters, majored Japanese Literature in 1957[1] and was employed as a Japanese literature teacher at Fushimi Junior High School in Kyoto City until 1964 [3] when she got married. Beginning writing since around 1967, Yamamura was nominated three times for Edogawa Ranpo Award in 1970, 1972 and 1973,[1] and it was in 1974 when she made a major debut with "Disappeared into the Sea of Melaka" マラッカの海に消えた (Marakkano Umini Kieta.)[3] Yamamura wrote two TV screen plays before her major debut for a very popular series of detective drama "SWAT: Special Investigation Team" (特別機動捜査隊). Those were written for Episodes 474 (co-authored with Norimasa Ogawa) and 476, both broadcast in 1970. Among her over 70 novels, many were set in Kyoto,[7] and a good number of those were used as the original works for television dramas since 1970s[8] as well as for several theater plays.[9][10] She incorporated her background into her novels as she held official instructors' license for Ikenobo flower arrangement (6th rank or Jun-kakan) and tea ceremony[11] with a Japanese dance Natori,[12] or an instructor allowed to hold a stage name (Hanayagi school). She appeared in a few TV drama based on her novels casted with Momiji Yamamura. Misa Yamamura introduced herself to a mystery writer Kyotaro Nishimura before her debut, and their friendship lasted till her unexpected death in 1996. Momiji, her daughter, has also been appearing in a variety of dramas based on novels by Kyotaro Nishimura as well.[6][notes 1] Many years after she had expired, Nishimura published a biographical novel "A Woman Writer" 女流作家 (Joryū Sakka) with a portrait picture of Misa Yamamura.[15] "A Flowery Coffin" 華の棺 (Hanano Hitsugi) was originally written in four parts between October 27 and November 17 for a weekly magazine Shūkan Asahi in 2006,[16] and a hard cover with the same title was published in November, 2006.[17] In both titles, the heroine is Natsuko Emoto, a woman mystery writer. Nishimura dedicated those books to Misa Yamamura as he wrote on the band over the book jacket. On September 5, 1996, she was found dead in the room she had used as her office in Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, due to heart failure at the age of 62 years.[notes 2][3][18] Yamamura left a will that her eldest daughter Momiji Yamamura should be given a role whoever a director produces works based on her novels for drama for television or theater. Momiji Yamamura has been providing the original plans for TV drama and theatrical works that uses her mother's novels, and it includes those episodes of two-hour TV dramas titled "Misa Yamamura, the Novelist Detective" has been broadcast since 2012, with the leading role portrayed as Misa Yamamura the novelist detective.[19] Momiji is co-starred with the main cast Yūko Asano, who plays Misa Yamamura.

Awards

Long lists

Bibliography

Serials

Single titles

Misa Yamamura Anthology

10 volumes published between 1989 and 1990

Essays

Screen plays

Episode 474 "Chain of Blood" 血の鎖 for December 2, 1970. (Co-authored with Norimasa Ogawa.)
Episode 476 "An Odd Couple" 奇妙な男と女 for December 16, 1970.

Original stories

Manga A series of five manga books published by Akita Shoten including:

Adventure computer games

Nintendo DS

Translated titles

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Yamamura's 78 titles before her death included two works left unfinished with Yamamura's death. Kyotaro Nishimura wrote and finalized a episode among Asako Sawaki series in 1997, who was not credited in the bibliographic data.[13] Nishimura completed another unfinished title "Murder of Narihira Ariwara" 在原業平殺人事件 by expanding it and was credited as a co-author in that book.[14]
  2. ↑ The official record of her death was 62 years old, while there were also reports that she was 65 years old as born in 1931. Yamamura's younger brother wrote his memory of her dated October 25, 1996 on a daily paper "Hokkaido Shimbun."[5]
  3. ↑ Since 1982, the Kyoto Culture Award has honored those who have contributed and improve cultural aspects in the Prefecture to ensure the culture in its area would develop and be promoted. The Lifetime Achievement Honor will award those who had distinguished services to enhance culture in Kyoto Prefecture through their many years of cultural and artistic activities.[21][22]
  4. ↑ Kyoto Akebono Award is an award granted by Kyoto Prefecture, and it will honor pioneering women and groups with particularly notable achievements in various fields. Kyoto Prefecture supports women to demonstrate and further their abilities.[23][24]
  5. ↑ Published in the Shōsetu Sandē Mainichi among those four finalists as newcomers.[26] The due date was January 31, 1971.[27]
  6. ↑ Yamamura's daughter Momiji passed the examination for the national tax specialist in 1984 as an undergraduate at Waseda University and worked at the National Tax Agency after she graduated.[33]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Misa Yamamura, the mystery writer was found dead". The Fuji Evening News (Yūkan Fuji) -zakzak. 1996-09-06. Archived from the original on 1997-07-14. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  2. ↑ "Sharlot, a main role actress in drama "Massan" for a new role as a female detective". Model Press. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Farewell to Misa Yamamura under tears". The Fuji Evening News (Yūkan Fuji) - zakzak. 1996-09-09. Archived from the original on 1997-07-14. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  4. ↑ Takashi Yamamura (2006-04-10). "Biography Takashi Yamamura—Takashi Yamamura, when started as a painter". Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  5. 1 2 "Kyotaro Nishimura". Mainichi Shinbun. Shiko to bunka. 46. p. 3. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  6. 1 2 Hisayuki Hayashi (2016-02-12). "Momiji Yamamura, the shadow queen of 2-hour drama - I will remain thankful to my mother". Nikkan Sports. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  7. ↑ Among the first novel staged in Kyoto was for the series of Fuyuko Enatsu, a coroner. Misa Yamamura (1980). 京都殺人地図—女検視官江夏冬子 [Kyoto Homicide Map]. Tokuma Shoten.
  8. ↑ Five key TV stations have broadcast dramas based on Misa Yamamura's novel; TV Asahi, Nippon TV, Fuji Television, TBS Television and TV Tokyo.
  9. ↑ "The world of Misa Yamamura's mystery will be recreated in Minamiza theater, Kyoto". Sankei Shimbun. 2006-08-22. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
  10. ↑ "Yuko Asano plays the main role for Misa Murayama's novel at the Minamiza in Kyoto". Sports Nippon. 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
  11. ↑ Misa Yamamura (1987). 京都茶道家元殺人事件 [Tea Ceremony Iemono was Murdered in Kyoto]. Kobunsha. ISBN 4334026885.
  12. ↑ Misa Yamamura (1986). 京都花見小路殺人事件 [Murder in Hanamikōji, Kyoto]. Shinchosha. ISBN 4103607025.
  13. 1 2 Misa Yamamura (1997). 龍野武者行列殺人事件 [Murder among Samurai Prosession at Tatsuno]. Jitsugyō no Nihonsha. ISBN 4408503029.
  14. 1 2 Misa Yamamura; Kyotaro Nishimura (1997). 在原業平殺人事件 [Murder of Narihira Ariwara]. Chūōkōron. ISBN 4125004811.
  15. ↑ Nishimura, Kyotaro (2000). 女流作家 [A Woman Writer]. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun. ISBN 4022574526.
  16. ↑ "Search result, Nishimura Kyotaro and Hanano Hitsugi". National Diet Library. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  17. ↑ Nishimura, Kyotaro (2006). 華の棺 [A Flowery Coffin]. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun. ISBN 4022502193.
  18. ↑ Japan Essayist Club, ed. (1997). 司馬サンの大阪弁 [Osaka Dialect of Mr. Shiba—the best essays of 1997]. Bungeishunjū. ISBN 4-16-743415-6.
  19. ↑ "作家探偵・山村美紗—京都・東山 密室トリック殺人事件" [Misa Yamamura, the Novelist Detective:a trick for locked‐room murder, Higashiyama, Kyoto]. TV Tokyo. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  20. ↑ "第0003回 昭和58年度 日本文芸大賞" [the third Nihon Bungei Taishō]. TOHAN Corporation. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  21. ↑ "京都府文化賞" [the Kyoto Culture Award]. Kyoto Prefecture. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  22. ↑ "京都府文化賞受賞者(参考)" [Awardee of the Kyoto Culture Award (supplement)] (PDF). Kyoto Prefecture. p. 23. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  23. ↑ "京都府あけぼの賞—過去の受賞者一覧" [Past Awardee Listed, Kyoto Akebono Award]. Kyoto Prefecture. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  24. ↑ "京都府あけぼの賞受賞者名簿" [List of Awardee, Kyoto Akebono Award] (PDF). Kyoto Prefecture. p. 1. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  25. ↑ Among five finalists at the 16th Edogawa Ranpo Award announced on July 2, 1970."第16回江戸川乱歩賞受賞作・候補作一覧" [Edogawa Ranpo Award—list of recipients and candidates]. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  26. ↑ "死体はクーラーが好き" [The Corpse Likes Air Conditioner]. 小説サンデー毎日. Vol. 3 no. 7 (Extra edition, June 1971 ed.).
  27. ↑ "第2回小説サンデー毎日新人賞候補" [List of candidates, the second Shōsetsu Sandē Mainichi Award, Newcomers division]. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  28. ↑ Among five finalists at the 18th Edogawa Ranpo Award announced on June 28, 1972. "第18回江戸川乱歩賞受賞作・候補作一覧" [Edogawa Ranpo Award—list of recipients and candidates]. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  29. ↑ Among five finalists at the 19th Edogawa Ranpo Award announced on June 30, 1973. "第19回江戸川乱歩賞受賞作・候補作一覧" [Edogawa Ranpo Award—list of recipients and candidates]. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  30. ↑ Detailed list in ja:キャサリンシリーズ
  31. ↑ 山村美紗 (1975). 花の棺 : 長編推理小説・書下ろし [Coffin of Flowers, a newly written mystery]. Kappa Novels. Tokyo: Kobunsha.
  32. ↑ Detailed list in ja:看護婦・戸田鮎子シリーズ
  33. ↑ "プロフィール" [Profile]. Official site. Toho Entertainment Co., Ltd. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  34. ↑ Arranged with different graphics to PSP by Marvelous in 2009, which applied simplified polygon graphics instead of video by Pack-in-Video.
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