from Niigata was a Japanese author. He wrote a number of historical novels. Politician Kenji Yamaoka is an adopted son. In 1968, he won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for his historical novel Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Awards 1958 - Chunichi Prize 1967 - Shin Hasegawa Prize 1968 - Yoshikawa Eiji Prize 1973- Medal with Purple Ribbon 1978 - 2nd Class, Order of the Sacred Treasure
Selected published works Otoko no Koi (1938) Marshall Yamamoto Isoroku (1944) Young Chiba Shusaku (1955) Chiba Shūsaku (1952-54) Tokugawa Ieyasu (1953-67) - 28 volumes Oda Nobunaga (1955-60) - 8 volumes Young Oda Nobunaga (1965) Yamada Nagamasa (1956) Sakamoto Ryōma (1956) Mito Kōmon (1957) Minamoto no Yoritomo (1957-60) - 3 volumes Shin Taiheiki (1957-62) - 8 volumes Nobusuke Kishi (1959) Ikiteita Mitsuhide (1963) Yagyū clan (1964) Mōri Motonari (1964) Isehon Taikoki (1965) - 7 volumes Pacific War (1965-71) - 9 volumes Takasugi Shinsaku (1966) Yoshida Shōin (1968) Emperor Meiji (1968) - 3 volumes Date Masamune (1970-73) Haru no Sakamichi (1971) Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1974) - 5 volumes Tokugawa Iemitsu (1974-76) - 3 volumes Unprecedented Man - Ryōichi Sasakawa (1978)
Adaptations Television Haru no Sakamichi (1971) Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) Dokuganryū Masamune (1987)
Film Kurenaigao no Wakamusha: Oda Nobunaga (1955), a Toei production Fuunji Oda Nobunaga (1959), a Toei production Tokugawa Ieyasu (1965), a Toei production
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