Momoko Hirotsu

Momoko Hirotsu (広津 桃子, Hirotsu Momoko, 21 March 1918 – 24 November 1988) was a Japanese novelist. She was the daughter of Kazuo Hirotsu.

Momoko Hirotsu
Native name
広津 桃子
Born(1918-03-21)21 March 1918
Died24 November 1988(1988-11-24) (aged 70)
Occupationnovelist
NationalityJapanese

Biography

After her father died, Hirotsu wrote Haru no oto (春の音), which won the Toshiko Tamura award in 1972. She also wrote Tsuwabuki no hana (石蕗の花), which won the Women's Literature award in 1981.[1] She wrote fewer works than her father Kazuo and her grandfather Hirotsu Ryurō. Momoko, who never married, died childless.[2] She was buried at Yanaka Cemetery.[3]

gollark: The majority of osmarksßdatabases™ use SQLite 3™, as a result.
gollark: SQLite 3™ would never do this to me.
gollark: Every time it does a major version upgrade I have to manually run the `pg_upgrade` thing and I resent it.
gollark: Package upgrades on Arch rarely break things for me, unless they're Postgres.
gollark: My server runs Arch for stability, my laptop runs Arch for purposes, and my *cloud* servers run Alpine because they have something like 800MB of disk space for the OS.

References
  1. Notiziario (in Italian). Istituto giapponese di cultura. 1982.
  2. Hefte für ostasiatische Literatur (in German). Kai Yeh. 1996. p. 119.
  3. 広津桃子. 谷中・桜木・上野公園裏路地ツアー (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 July 2017.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.