Shigeko Yuki
Shigeko Yuki (由起 しげ子, Sakai, Osaka, December 2, 1900 – December 30, 1969) was a Japanese writer.
Life
Her mother died when Shigeko was 10 years old. She matriculated in a girls' school in 1919 in Kobe to learn music, but her family was against that. In 1924 she married the painter Usaburo Ihara (伊原宇 三郎, 1894-1976).[1] From 1925 to 1929, she lived in France, where she learnt composition and piano.
After their divorce in 1945, she started writing storybooks for children because she had money problems. The editor in chief of the magazine Sakuhin (作品) encouraged her to write novels. With her second novel, Hon no Hanashi, she won the Akutagawa Prize in 1949. Her novel Jochūkko (1951) was made into a film by Tomotaka Tasaka (田坂 具隆) in 1955.
She died of a blood poisoning related to diabetes mellitus.
Works (selection)
- Yagurumasō , 1947
- Hon no hanashi (本の話)
- Kokubetsu, 1951
- Yubiwa no Hanashi, 1951
- Jochūkko (女中ッ子), 1951
- Fuyu no Ki, 1953
- Hyōhakku, 1954
- Akasaka no Kyōdai (赤坂の姉妹), 1960
- Keiyaku Kekkon (契約結婚), 1961
- Yasashii Otto (やさしい良人), 1963
Bibliography
- Sachiko Schierbeck: Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century. 104 Biographies 1900-93. Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, ISBN 978-8772892689, S. 128–131.