1. Tatsuhiko Shibusawa was the pen name of Shibusawa Tatsuo, a Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French literature active during the Showa period.
18 Facts About Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa was born in the upper-class neighborhood of Takanawa in Tokyo.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa's father was a banker, and his mother was the daughter of an industrialist and politician.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa was distantly related to the industrialist Shibusawa Eiichi.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa was related to composer Hisatada Otaka and critic Keijiro Okawa.
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However, the possibilities for a career in that field disappeared with Japan's defeat in the war, and Tatsuhiko Shibusawa received notably poor scores in the German language, which was widely used in engineering at the time.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa turned his attention to study of the French language instead.
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In 1950, after working as an editor at the Modern Nihon magazine under Junnosuke Yoshiyuki for two years, Shibusawa entered the University of Tokyo's school of French literature, where he enthusiastically embraced the avant-garde movement of surrealism, which started in France after World War I He was especially attracted to Andre Breton, and this led him to learn of the works of the Marquis de Sade.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa relocated from Tokyo to the resort town of Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture in 1946, due to its reputation for having a healthful climate for lung disorders, and continued to live there to his death.
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In 1959, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa published, a translation of de Sade's Juliette.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa was fined 70,000 yen ; the triviality of the sum greatly outraged him, given the nine years that the trial had taken from his life.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, although discouraged, was not deterred, and continued to write works on eroticism and to translate the works of de Sade, as well as other French authors; he produced essays and art criticism, and became a specialist in the study of medieval demonology.
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In September 1970, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa made his first overseas trip, a vacation to Europe.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa was seen off at Haneda Airport by his close friend Yukio Mishima.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa frequented Hijikata's stage performances and when Hijikata died suddenly in 1986, he served as the chairman of the funeral committee.
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In other words, it can be said that Tatsuhiko Shibusawa created one of the triggers for the rise of ball-jointed dolls in modern Japan.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa died of a rupture of a carotid aneurysm while he was hospitalized for larynx cancer in 1987.
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Tatsuhiko Shibusawa's grave is at the temple of Jochi-ji in Kamakura.