was a Japanese author. He wrote a number of historical novels. He won the Naoki Award for popular literature in 1960.Japan Update (Keizai Kōhō Sentā, Tokyo, Japan) No. 16-27 1993, page 18: "Fuji Television Demon Heizo's Reports.... Demon Heizo's author, Shotaro Ikenami (1923-1990), accomplished much more than this literary feat. Even in his youth, working for the Tokyo metropolitan government, he wrote plays for Shin-kokugeki, a legitimate theater specializing in period drama. Upon winning the prestigious Naoki Award for popular literature in 1960 he launched into..."Asiaweek Volume 13 1987, page 633: "Shotaro Ikenami, 64, is famous for his accounts of China's feuding kingdoms (481-221 B.C.), and of the benevolent thieves in Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1867). He was awarded the prestigious Naoki Prize in 1960." Many of his historical novels were adapted for TV and cinema.
Life Ikenami was born on January 25, 1923, in Shintencho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo (now 7-chome Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo). His father, Tomijiro, was a clerk at a Nihonbashi tinsel wholesaler. His mother, Suzu Kyosan, was the third daughter of an Asakusa craftsman. She specialized in the creation of metal ornaments. Shotaro was their eldest son.
During the Great Kanto Earthquake, he moved to Urawa, Saitama, with his parents, and stayed there until the age of six (1929). Eventually, his parents moved back to Tokyo, where Ikenami entered Negishi Elementary School. Tomijiro, whose business was unsatisfactory, opened a ballpark at Shimotani Kaminegishi with the investment of his close relatives. However, Ikenami's parents divorced that year due to marital discord.
Shotaro was placed in the care of his mother and moved to his grandfather's house in Asakusa Eijucho, and moved to Nishitachi Elementary School in Shimotani. Grandfather Imai Kyosan is Gokenin in the house of adoption in the person of craftsman-Edo temperament was filled, and cherish the Shotaro on behalf of a busy mother. During this time, while working, she supported the family of the Imai family and remarried with a temporary leave of Shotaro, but she was unrelated and returned to her parents' home. With this second marriage, Shotaro has a single brother-in-law.
1935 (Showa 10 years), graduated from West Town Elementary School. The teacher instructed her to go on to school, but she went to service because of family circumstances. Relatives helped him first go to the stock exchange and Tasaki Shoten, but in less than six months he changed his position to a paint shop and then retired to the stock broker and Matsushima Shoten. After that, he stayed there until he entered the National Labor Training Institute in 1942 . He used his chips and pocket money to raise secret prices and earn more than his monthly salary. Shotaro in the Kabutocho era used this as "military funding", reading books, movies, watching theater, enjoying mountain climbing and traveling, going to the sword art dojo, eating and walking around, and indulging in Yoshiwara . During this period, not only did he become more interested in reading and movies, but he also actively watched Kabuki, the New Kingdom, and the new drama, and even learned Nagauta to deepen his understanding of Kabuki .
World War II In 1941 (Showa 16), the Pacific War broke out. The following year he retired from Matsushima Shoten and joined the National Labor Training Institute. During the same year, he was assigned to Shibaura and Kayaba Works, where he trained as a lathe mechanic. The director, who was planning to be in charge of accounting for the first time, placed Ikenami in charge of the site, and in a few months, with the careful guidance of his boss, he mastered this technology. Around this time, he published short stories in the reading section of " Ladies Pictorial." Out of them, "Holiday" received an Outstanding Honorable Mention (May 1943), "Return of My Brother" was Winner (July July), "Driving" received an Honorable Mention (November Issue), and "Snow" a Selected Honorable mention (December issue). He earned a prize of 50 yen for "Return of My Brother," his first manuscript income.
In the winter of 1943 (Showa 18), he was transferred to a factory in Gifu-Ota, where he also worked as a lathe educator. The following year, on New Year's Day, he reunited with his father who had been recruited to a steel mill in Nagoya for the first time in a long time. On a holiday, he toured the mountains in the Chubu region and went to Tokyo to see Kabuki. The year after, he finally retired from the factory when a wage warrant was issued to Shotaro, who had reached adulthood. In April, he joined the Yokosuka Marine Corps . Soon he entered the driving school in the Takeyama Marine Corps. However, he rebelled against the instructor's violent teaching methods, was repeatedly disciplined, and left without completing the school. He was transferred to Isogo's Eighty-First Sky and was in charge of communications duties (telephone exchange). On March 10 1945, his house in Eijucho was burned due to the Tokyo air raid. Then, sailors length was promoted to, Yonago of Miho air base transferees to. He became the head of the telephone exchange office in the same area. The worsening of the war situation, nationwide. Amidst the danger of air raids, Yonago enjoyed relatively peaceful days, and during this time, Shotaro was passionate about making haiku and tanka in his spare time . August 15 defeat. Advance to Sergeant Second Class . After returning to Tokyo, he will return to Tokyo on August 24 .
As a playwright Immediately after returning to Tokyo, in October 1945, he saw the sixth generation Kikugoro Onoe 's Ginza Revival at the Imperial Theater . 1946 (1946), Tokyo becomes the staff Shitaya Ward worked in public office, but the work is student part-time job in various places with DDT was to go around spraying. He had already lost his home due to a raid, and because the landlord of the rented house returned from the evacuation area, he stayed in the government office and immersed himself in work, while playing for the Yomiuri Shimbun Drama Culture Prize, which was established this year. Authored "Snowy Sunny". The work won the fourth place in the selection and was performed by the New Kyogekidan . The following year, while continuing to work at the ward office, he won the prize for the honorable mention at the South Wind Blowing Window.
In 1948 (Showa 23), he visited Shin Hasegawa for the first time after studying . From the following year, he studied dramatic works in earnest, and also participated in a criticism meeting under his ancestor, the 26th day meeting. The work before and after this includes "Peonyeon", "Hand" and "Moth". "Hand" was considered to be performed in the Shinkoku drama. In 1950 (Showa 25), he married Toyoko Kataoka and rented a house, but he won a lottery that he had applied for soon, and he got a new house with the performance fee of "Dark beef" performed in the Shinkoku drama. Built. Since then, Shotaro, who has deepened his relationship with the New Kingdom drama, is said to be a seated writer, while providing Tatsumi Yanagitaro and Shimada Shogo with "In the Cage" (1952) and " Watanabe Kazan " (1953), Even in novels, Hasegawa strongly recommended novels such as "In the Kitchen" (1954) in Shintakakai 's magazine "Daisen Literature" .
To the novelist In January 1955, Nayoroiwa, one of the masterpieces of the play, was staged and directed by himself . By this, I finally retired the Tokyo staff with the confidence that I could stand by writing (I refused promotion, I was devoted to outside work, and at that time I was collecting taxes at the Meguro tax office). "The following year Tomitaro Makino," Yasushi Inoue "of the original Furinkazan such as", "Kurokumotani," "Zokusho", while staged one after another works in Shinkokugeki, continue asked regularly novel in the journal "public literary" Was. In the early days, there were many contemporary works, but the November and December 1956 edition of Onda Woodwork (Sanada Riot) put historical and period novels at the center of writing. The following year, Onda Woodwork was a candidate for the Naoki Prize in the second half of 1957, but was rejected. Since then, he has been writing novels steadily in parallel with his plays. In September 1959, he published his virginity book, Shinano Daimiki, from Koshobo. During this time, the Naoki Prize was selected five times for "Eye" (first half of 1957), "Shinano Daimyo" (second half of the same year), "Onin no Ran" (second half of 1958), and "Hizu" (first half of 1959), The selection committee member, Shigoro Kaionji, received a bad reputation and did not win the award. 1958 in private lifeIn 1958, he met his father, who had lost his communication since he met in Nagoya just before his departure. Shotaro suggested she live with her mother, but she was not heard.
In 1960, he was awarded the Naoki Prize (1st half) for "Confusion". Hasegawa was delighted like me, and Shotaro was also handed a prize by Jiro Daibutsu, a favorite reader since his youth . Within a few years after receiving the award, he wrote screenplays for "Shikamizu Kazuki" and "Kaga Uproar", "The Man in the North Sea" ("All Readings", October 60), "The Woman of the Demon Lord" ("Weekly Mass" 11 July 7), "The Last Journey to Uden" ("Shinbunsho Shincho", January 1986), "Color" ("All Readings", August of the same year), "Fire Extinguisher" ("Shinkiso Novell") 62, January), "human sword Hanjiro" ("Asahi Performing arts" the same year October 28 issue - 64 years January 26 issue), "pock MataJuro" ("reasoning stream" 63, January), "Samurai's Nest" ("Bungei Asahi", June of the same year), "Bakumatsu Shinsengumi" ("Earth" January–March, 1964), "Bakumatsu Yukitai" ("Weekly Yomiuri", same year 8) A series of early masterpiece novels were published one after another, including the March 4 issue- December 29 issue, of which "Color" was made into a movie under the title of "Ishin no Bonfire" (1961). On the other hand, as the playwright 1963 for Shinkokugeki in (1963) Hiroshi Shimozawa After performing the adaptation of the original "man hawk", cut off the relationship for a while theater-Shinkokugeki, so as to concentrate on the novel Was. It was due to questions about the new country drama and friction with the surroundings due to the dedication of Shotaro. same year. On June 11, Shin Hasegawa died, but at the same time he left the 26th-day meeting and Shintaka-kai. Since then, he has continued writing without belonging to any organization.
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