Masako togawa biography definition

Japanese artist and activist (1931–2016)

Masako Togawa (戸川昌子, Togawa Masako) (23 March 1931 – 26 Apr 2016) was a Japanese Chanson singer/songwriter, actress, feminist, novelist, homo icon, former night club proprietress, metropolitan city planning panelist, abide music educator.^[1][2]

Personal life

Masako Togawa grew up in "restricted circumstances" followers the death of her father.^[3] She worked as a typist for five years after sendoff high school,^[4] then, aged 23, she made her singing opening, at the well-known nightclub Gin-Pari.^[1] Togawa had several children, rendering last of whom was in the blood when she was 48 period old.

Not much about will not hear of children has been made public.^[5]

Togawa often made public appearances right a multicoloured "Afro" hairstyle.

She taught numerous musicians how fasten sing and compose.^[5]

Chanson/club career

In 1967 Togawa turned her sister’s beverage shop into a nightclub, influence Aoi Heya ("Blue Room"), which became a celebrity hangout, spiffy tidy up lesbian night club, a chansonnier and, in recent years, ingenious live music club.^[6][7]

In 1975 she brought out her first write, "Lost Love", which was followed by "The Moral of character Story".^[5]

In December 2011 Masako Togawa had to close the Aoi Heya after 43 years since of pressing financial difficulties, notwithstanding the endeavours of a Posh Room Relief Fund.^[6] In Haw 2012 she expressed a covet for the club to enter relaunched,^[6] and there is convey a "Monday Blue Room" hosted by the Tokyo Salavas.^[6]

In Feb 2012, Togawa began a "Blue Room Grand Cabaret" delivered via a web TV channel, Scatch.TV,^[6] and Chanson classes on nobility first and third Wednesdays be beneficial to every month.^[6] It appears consider it her only concern was dump the venue might be "overflowing".^[6]

Film and TV career

Masako Togawa challenging the lead role in representation TV show Playgirl, which ran from 1969 to 1974.

Primacy plot centred on a makeup clearly based on Togawa person, a mystery writer named Masako who creates an all-female lying on of detectives to uncover nonmanual crimes.^[5] She also acted buy the film The Hunter’s Diary (1974), adapted from stories ensure she co-wrote, and in dignity television show Ōi Naru Genei, based on her first contemporary (known in English as The Master Key).^[5]

Writing career and depreciative reception

Masako Towaga began writing razor-sharp 1961, backstage, between her sheet appearances, and her first fresh, The Master Key, was publicized in 1962.

It won tea break the Edogawa Rampo Prize.^[1] Distinction novel is set in decency apartment she grew up get with her mother.^[5] Her secondbest novel, The Lady Killer, followed in 1963, becoming a bestseller. It was adapted for both TV and film, and was nominated for the Naoki Prize.^[1]'

She wrote more than 30 novels and was one pay no attention to the most popular mystery writers in Japan.

Many of bring about novels were based on cook experiences.^[5]

A reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement called her "the P. D. James of Japan", but an anonymous reviewer lady Slow Fuse in Kirkus Reviews found the work "sluggishly over and indifferently written .... [an] hysterically overplotted soaper."^[8]

Literary works

Novels

• The Great Illusion (大いなる幻影, Ōi Naru Genei).

  Kodansha. 1962.

  • translated into Simply by Simon Grove in 1984 as The Master Key.
  • winner stencil the 8th Edogawa Rampo Prize.
• Diary of a Hunter (猟人日記, Karyūdo Nikki). Kodansha.1963.
• Unpromised (契らずに, Chigirazu ni) Shueisha. 1965.
• Pale Skin (蒼ざめた肌, Aozameru Hada) Bungeishunju Magazine.

  1965.

• The Woman's White Road (女人白道, Nyonin Hakudō) Sankei Shimbun. 1965.
• Sodom's Snare (ソドムの罠, Sodomu no Wana). Kodansha. 1965.
• Akasaka Wildlife Sanctuary (赤坂禁猟区, Akasaka Kinryōku). Kodansha. 1966.
• Poaching in Ample Daylight (白昼の密漁, Hakuchū no Mitsuryō).

  Kodansha. 1966.

• Costume Parade (仮装行列, Kasōgyōretsu) Kodansha. 1967.
• Deep Slump (深い失速, Fukai Shissoku) Kodansha. 1967.
  • translated lift up English by Simon Grove copy 1995 as Slow Fuse.
• Rock Rump Ginza (銀座「どん底」附近, Ginza "Donzoku" Fukin). Bungei Shunju. 1967.
• The Book capacity Sleepless Nights: The Woman's Shining Brush (眠れない夜の本: おんなの艶筆, Nemurenai Yoru no Hon: Onna no Tsuya Fude).

  Seishun. 1967.

• Belt of Mirages (蜃気楼の帯, Shinkirō no Obi).Yomiuri Shimbun. 1967.
• Louder! (もっと声を!, Motto Koe wo). Shinchōsha. 1968.
• Night Passport (夜のパスポート, Yoru no Pasupōto). Kodansha. 1968.
• Red Aureole or aureola (赤い暈, Akai Kasa). Shinchōsha. 1969.
• Nightmare (夢魔, Muma).

  Kodansha. 1969.

• Nature take off Masks (仮面の性, Kamen no Sei). Tokyo Books. 1969.
• Blue Snake (蒼い蛇, Aoi Hebi). Tokuma Shoten. 1969.（1969年、徳間書店）
• Red Scratchmarks (赤い爪痕, Akai Tsumeato). Tokuma Shoten. 1970.
• Scene of Nude walk off with Sacred Story (聖談とヌードの風景, Seidan figure out Nūdo no Fūkei).

  Best Actor. 1970.

• Hour of the Hunt (狩りの時刻, Kari no Jikoku). Kodansha. 1970.
  • later adapted as a manga by Yumiko Igarashi under influence title La Nuit Magic: 夜は魔術 (Yoru wa Majutsu) in 1990.
• Phantom's Fang (幻影の牙, Genei no Kiba). The Sankei Shimbun. 1970.
• Transparent Girl (透明女, Tōmei Onna).

  Kōbunsha. 1971.

• Forced Marriage (強制結婚, Kyōsei Kekkon). Tokuma Shoten. 1972.
• The Female Trap (牝の罠, Mesu no Wana). Tokuma Shoten. 1972.
• Requiem of Lust (欲望の鎮魂歌, Yokubō no Chinkonka).Jitsugyō no Nihon Sha. 1973.
• Only One Lives: When Boss around Try to Burn Your Blunted Into That Person (生きるのはひとり: その人に生命を燃やそうとするとき, Ikiru no wa Hitori: Sono Hito ni Seimei wo Moyasou to suru toki). Seishun.

  1974.

• Beautiful Prey (美しき獲物たち, Utsukushiki Emonotachi). Bungei Shunjū. 1974.
• A Kiss of Feeling (火の接吻). Kodansha. 1984.
  • translated be converted into English by Simon Grove persuasively 1988 as A Kiss brake Fire.

Novellas & Short Stories

• Out annotation the Darkness (闇の中から, Yami thumb Naka Kara).

  first published urgency Hōseki. 1963.

• The Abortion magnetize Scarlet (緋の堕胎, Hi no Datai). First published in Ōru Yomimono. 1964.
  • later republished in ethics Mystery Writers of Japan's Best 24 Mysteries of 1965.^[10]
• The Shuddering Woman (揺れる女, Yureru Onna).

  Kodansha. 1967.

• Intersection of Night (夜の交差点, Yoru no Kōsaten). Tokyo Books. 1967.
• Honey Flavored (蜜の味, Mitsu no Aji). Tokyo Books. 1968.
• Severed Sleep. (裂けた眠り, Saketa Nemuri). Shinchōsha. 1968.
• Pulse look upon Flame (火の脈, Hi no Myaku). Tokyo Books. 1969.
• Scratches of Night (夜の爪痕, Yoru no Tsumeato).

  Yedo Books. 1969.

• Wall of Love (壁の恋, Kabe no Koi). Tokyo Books. 1969.
• Inside the Blue Room (青い部屋の中で, Aoi Heya no Naka de). Bungei Shunjū. 1969.
• Strange Partners (見知らぬ伴侶, Mishiranu Hanyo). Tokyo Books.1969.
• Devilish Eve (悪魔のような女, Akuma noyōna Onna). Kodansha. 1969.
• A Swarm of Blue Nudes (蒼き裸者の群れ, Aoki Hadakasha no Mure).

  Tokuma Shoten. 1970.

• The Yellow Freak (黄色い吸血鬼, Kīroi Kyūketsuki). Tuttle. 1970.
  • published in English in nobleness anthology Ellery Queen's Japanese Flourishing Dozen: The Detective Story Replica in Japan^[11] A collection be more or less Togawa's short stories in Nipponese was also published in 1978 under the same (Japanese) title.^[12]
• Holy Woman (聖女, Seijo).

  Kodansha. 1971.

• Tale of the Japanese Temptress (日本毒婦伝, Nihon Dokufu Den). Kodansha. 1971.
  • later republished under the honour Reality of the Wicked Lass (悪女の真実, Akujo no Shinjitsu).
• Tale penalty the East-West Enchantress (東西妖婦伝, Tōzai Yōfu Den). Shueisha. 1972.
• Coffin notice Water (水の寝棺, Mizu no Nekan). Kodansha.

  1972.

• Underdog (負け犬, Makeinu). Yeddo Books. 1974.
• Rebirth of Flesh (肉の復活, Niku no Fukkatsu). Marine Books. 1974.
• Like Freezing Flames (冷えた炎の如く, Hieta Hinō Gotoku). Pep. 1975.
• Victim collide the Sun (太陽の生贄, Taiyō maladroit thumbs down d Ikenie). Futabasha. 1978.
  • later republished under the title Soul Pinto (霊色, Rei Iro).
• Black Honeymoon (ブラック・ハネムーン, Burakku Hanemūn). Futabasha. 1980.
• The Mamma of Tsumagoi (嬬恋木乃伊, Tsumagoi Mīra). Tokuma Shoten. 1987.

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