Yoshimi Usui


Yoshimi Usui was a Japanese writer and critic from Azumino, Nagano prefecture.
Usui won the 1974 10th Tanizaki Prize for Azumino.
In 1977 he published a novelised account of Kawabata's death that led to a lawsuit against him by the Nobel Prize-winner's family.

Selected works

  • Hōjōki. Tsurezuregusa. Ichigon hōdanshu, Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1970.
  • Hitotsu no kisetsu, 1975.
  • Butai no ue de, 1976.
  • Genjitsu no gyoshi, Tōkyo : Ie no Hikari Kyokai, 1976.
  • Tsuchi to furusato no bungaku zenshū, 15 volumes, 1976–1977.
  • Jikō no tenmatsu, 1977.
  • Jibun o tsukuru, Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1979.
  • Shohan, Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, 1985.