1. Seishi Yokomizo was a Japanese mystery novelist, known for creating the fictional detective Kosuke Kindaichi.
11 Facts About Seishi Yokomizo
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Seishi Yokomizo read detective stories as a boy and in 1921, while employed by the Daiichi Bank, published his first story in the popular magazine Shin Seinen.
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Seishi Yokomizo graduated from Osaka Pharmaceutical College with a degree in pharmacy, and initially intended to take over his family's drug store.
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Seishi Yokomizo was attracted to the literary genre of historical fiction, especially that of the historical detective novel.
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Undeterred, Seishi Yokomizo followed on his early success with a second novel Ningyo Sashichi torimonocho.
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Seishi Yokomizo published many works as serials in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, concentrating only on popular mystery novels based on the orthodox western detective story format, starting with Honjin Satsujin Jiken and Chocho Satsujin Jiken.
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Seishi Yokomizo's works became the model for many other postwar Japanese mystery writers.
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Seishi Yokomizo was often called the "Japanese John Dickson Carr" after a writer whom he admired.
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Seishi Yokomizo is most well known for creating the private detective Kosuke Kindaichi.
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Seishi Yokomizo's grave is at the Shunjuen Cemetery in Kawasaki, Kanagawa.
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The Yokomizo Seishi Prize is a literary award established in 1980 by the Kadokawa Shoten publishing company and the Tokyo Broadcasting System in honor of Yokomizo.