1. Eiji Yoshikawa was a Japanese historical novelist.
11 Facts About Eiji Yoshikawa
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Eiji Yoshikawa was mainly influenced by classics such as The Tale of the Heike, Tale of Genji, Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many of which he retold in his own style.
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Eiji Yoshikawa was awarded the Cultural Order of Merit in 1960, the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Mainichi Art Award just before his death from cancer in 1962.
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Eiji Yoshikawa is cited as one of the best historical novelists in Japan.
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Eiji Yoshikawa was born Hidetsugu Yoshikawa in Kanagawa Prefecture, in what is a part of Yokohama.
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Eiji Yoshikawa joined a poetry society and started writing comic haiku under the pseudonym "Kijiro".
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Eiji Yoshikawa joined the newspaper Maiyu Shimbun in 1921, and in the following year he began publishing serializations, starting with Life of Shinran.
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Eiji Yoshikawa married Yasu Akazawa in 1923, the year of the Great Kanto earthquake.
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Eiji Yoshikawa used 19 pen names before settling on Eiji Yoshikawa.
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Eiji Yoshikawa first used this pen name with the serialization of Sword Trouble, Woman Trouble.
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Eiji Yoshikawa's name became a household word after Secret Record of Naruto was serialized in the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun; from then on his writing became much more popular.