日本ペンクラブは、インターネット時代の文学状況の変化を見通し、電子文藝館を2001年11月26日の「ペンの日」に開設しました。電子文藝館の掲載作品は、会員・物故会員のほかに、幕末・明治維新から、現在までの日本近代文学の軌跡を鳥瞰できるように、1935年の日本ペンクラブ創立以前の先人たちの優れた作品もあわせて積極的に掲載しています。
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past presidents The number of works is 4.

    • Poem

    OOKA Makoto

    A Poet’s Anthology
    • Novel

    KAWABATA Yasunari

    The Izu Dancer
    • Novel

    ENDO Shusaku

    a forty-year-old man
    • Novel

    INOUE Hisashi

    The Face of Jizo
  • Novel
INOUE Hisashi
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year of birth : 1934

year of death : 2010

Country of origin : Japan

Playwright and novelist. November 16,1934~April 9, 2010. Born in Yamagata Prefecture and graduated from Sophia University in 1960. He won many literary prizes, including the prestigious Naoki Prize for Handcuffed Double Suicide（Tegusari Shinju） and the Asahi Prize. In 1984 he founded Komatsuza, a theater troupe dedicated to his work. Komatsuza still remains active today, producing Inoue’s dramas and touring with them throughout Japan. He was an outspoken antiwar and antinuclear activist, and in 2004 he established a group defending Japan’s Peace Constitution with other intellectuals, including the Nobel Prize winner Ōe Kenzaburō. He was designated a Person of Cultural Merit in 2004 and became a member of Japan Art Academy in 2009. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the 14th President of The Japan P.E.N. Club.

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The Face of Jizo (Chichi to Kuraseba) is said to be one of the masterpiece of postwar dramas, and published by Komatsuza in 2004.

Other works by the author

  • あくる朝の蟬

    • INOUE Hisashi

  • 金壺親父恋達引（かなつぼおやじこいのたてひき）

    • INOUE Hisashi

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