Rinzō Shiina

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.^[1]

Rinzō Shiina
Shiina Rincon in 1948 (Asahi Shinbun)
Native name	椎名麟三
Born	Ōtsubo Noboru (1911-10-01)1 October 1911 Hyōgo Prefecture
Died	28 March 1973(1973-03-28) (aged 61)
Occupation	Novelist (Short story)
Language	Japanese
Nationality	Japanese
Education	High school dropout
Genre	Romance, short story
Subject	Christian
Notable works	Utsukushii onna
Notable awards	Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Award (1955)

Granite marker in Hyōgo Prefecture honoring Rinzō Shiina

Shiina's best known works were written after 1950. His writing focused on the spiritual poverty of post-occupation Japan.^[2]

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.^[3]

• Eiennaru Joshō; Chōekinin no Kokuhatsu (永遠なる序章; 懲役人の告発), 1948
• Shiina Rinzō shū (椎名麟三集 by 椎名麟三), 1952
• Shiina Rinzō, Noma Hiroshi, Umezaki Haruo shū (椎名麟三, 野間宏, 梅崎春生集). 1954
• Ai no Shōgen (愛の証言), 1955; translated from the Japanese as The Flowers Are Fallen, 1961, by Sydney Giffard
• Shiina Rinzō, Umezaki Haruo shū (椎名麟三, 梅崎春生集), 1965
• The Go-Between and Other Stories by Rinzō Shiina, 1970; translated by Noah S. Brannen (ISBN 978-0-81700-490-3).
  • "Baishakunin" ("The Go-Between") also appears in ISBN 978-0-23113-804-8