Rinzō Shiina (椎名 麟三 Shiina Rinzō; born 大坪 昇 Noboru Ōtsuka; 1 October 1911 – 28 March 1973) was a Japanese writer, novelist, short story writer and playwright.Olson, George L. (2007). Mummy Thief: A Memoir of My Life's Challenges, p. 77.
Shiina's best known works were written after 1950. His writing focused on the spiritual poverty of post-occupation Japan.Rimmer, Thomas J. (2007). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Vol. 2, p. 326.
Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Rinzō Shiina, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 274 works in 433 publications in three languages and 1,530 library holdings. WorldCat Identities: 椎名麟三 1911-1973
, 1948 , 1952 . 1954 , 1955; translated from the Japanese as The Flowers Are Fallen, 1961, by Sydney Giffard , 1965 The Go-Between and Other Stories by Rinzō Shiina, 1970; translated by Noah S. Brannen (). "Baishakunin" ("The Go-Between") also appears in
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