Misa Yamamura Explained

Misa Yamamura
Native Name:山村美紗
Native Name Lang:Japanese
Birth Name:Misa Kimura
Birth Date:25 August 1934
Birth Place:Kyoto
Nationality:Japanese
Alma Mater:Kyoto Prefectural University
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Spouse:Takashi Yamamura
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Awards:Kyoto Culture Award, Lifetime Achievement Honor

, née, was a Japanese novelist and a mystery writer favored as the queen of both mystery novels and tricks in Japan,[1] often compared to Agatha Christie.[2] Her spouse is Takashi Yamamura, a painter and a retired high school teacher.[3] [4] Her younger brother is Hiroshi Kimura, a professor of Political Science[5] and her daughter is Momiji Yamamura, an actress.[6]

Biography

Born in Kyoto, Misa Yamamura graduated from Kyoto Prefectural University Faculty of Letters, majored Japanese Literature in 1957[1] and was employed as a Japanese literature teacher at Fushimi Junior High School in Kyoto City until 1964 [3] when she got married. Beginning writing since around 1967, Yamamura was nominated three times for in 1970, 1972 and 1973,[1] and it was in 1974 when she made a major debut with .[3] Yamamura wrote two TV screen plays before her major debut for a very popular series of detective drama . Those were written for Episodes 474 (co-authored with Norimasa Ogawa) and 476, both broadcast in 1970.

Among her seventy-plus novels, many were set in Kyoto,[7] and a good number of those were used as the original works for television dramas since 1970s[8] as well as for several theater plays.[9] [10] She incorporated her background into her novels as she held official instructors' license for Ikenobo flower arrangement (6th rank or Jun-kakan) and tea ceremony[11] with a Japanese dance Natori,[12] or an instructor allowed to hold a stage name (Hanayagi school). She appeared in a few TV drama based on her novels cast with Momiji Yamamura.

Her most enduring character was amateur detective Catherine Turner, the Japanophilic daughter of a fictional Vice President of the United States. Debuting as a Columbia senior in 1975's, this character ultimately resettled in Japan as a fashion reporter/photographer, appearing in a total of twenty novels and dozens of short stories.[13]

Misa Yamamura introduced herself to mystery writer Kyotaro Nishimura before her debut, and their friendship lasted till her unexpected death in 1996. Momiji, her daughter, has also been appearing in a variety of dramas based on novels by Kyotaro Nishimura as well.[6] Many years after her death, Nishimura published the biographical novel with a portrait picture of Misa Yamamura.[14] In 2006, he further homaged her with his own ; originally serialized in four parts from October 27 to November 17 for weekly magazine Shūkan Asahi, it centered on the legacy of deceased mystery writer Natsuko Emoto, a fictionalization of Yamamura.[15] [16]

On September 5, 1996, she was found dead in the room she had used as her office in Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, due to heart failure at the age of 62 years.[3] [17] Yamamura left a will that her eldest daughter Momiji Yamamura should be given a role whoever a director produces works based on her novels for drama for television or theater. Momiji Yamamura has been providing the original plans for TV drama and theatrical works that uses her mother's novels, and it includes those episodes of two-hour TV dramas titled "Misa Yamamura, the Novelist Detective" has been broadcast since 2012, with the leading role portrayed as Misa Yamamura the novelist detective.[18] Momiji is co-starred with the main cast Yūko Asano, who plays Misa Yamamura.

Awards

Long lists

Bibliography

Serials

Single titles

Misa Yamamura Anthology

10 volumes published between 1989 and 1990

Essays

Screen plays

Episode 474 "Chain of Blood" for December 2, 1970. (Co-authored with Norimasa Ogawa.)

Episode 476 "An Odd Couple" for December 16, 1970.

Original stories

MangaA series of five manga books published by Akita Shoten including:

Adventure computer games

Nintendo DS

Translated titles

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: The Fuji Evening News (Yūkan Fuji) -zakzak . Misa Yamamura, the mystery writer was found dead . 1996-09-06 . 1997-07-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/19970714094528/http://www.zakzak.co.jp/geino/n_September/nws87.html . 2016-02-21 . dead .
  2. Web site: Sharlot, a main role actress in drama "Massan" for a new role as a female detective. Model Press. 2016-02-21.
  3. News: Farewell to Misa Yamamura under tears . The Fuji Evening News (Yūkan Fuji) - zakzak . 1996-09-09 . 2016-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/19970714094511/http://www.zakzak.co.jp/geino/n_September/nws89.html . 1997-07-14 . dead .
  4. Web site: Takashi Yamamura. Biography Takashi Yamamura—Takashi Yamamura, when started as a painter. 2006-04-10. 2016-10-26.
  5. News: Kyotaro Nishimura. Shiko to bunka. 46 . 3. Mainichi Shinbun. 2016-02-21.
  6. News: Hisayuki Hayashi. Momiji Yamamura, the shadow queen of 2-hour drama - I will remain thankful to my mother. Nikkan Sports. 2016-02-12. 2016-02-21.
  7. Among the first novel staged in Kyoto was for the series of Fuyuko Enatsu, a coroner. Book: 京都殺人地図—女検視官江夏冬子. Kyoto Homicide Map. Misa Yamamura. Tokuma Shoten. 1980.
  8. Five key TV stations have broadcast dramas based on Misa Yamamura's novel; TV Asahi, Nippon TV, Fuji Television, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television and TV Tokyo.
  9. News: The world of Misa Yamamura's mystery will be recreated in Minamiza theater, Kyoto. Sankei Shimbun. 2006-08-22. 2015-08-23.
  10. News: Yuko Asano plays the main role for Misa Murayama's novel at the Minamiza in Kyoto. Sports Nippon. 2015-08-22. 2015-08-23.
  11. Book: 京都茶道家元殺人事件. Tea Ceremony Iemono was Murdered in Kyoto. Misa Yamamura. Kobunsha. 4334026885. 1987.
  12. Book: 京都花見小路殺人事件. Murder in Hanamikōji, Kyoto. Misa Yamamura. Shinchosha. 4103607025. 1986.
  13. Web site: アメリカ副大統領を父に持つ美貌の素人探偵. A beautiful amateur detective whose father is the Vice President of the United States. ミステリー・推理小説データ・ベース Aga-Search. 2023-04-11.
  14. Book: Nishimura, Kyotaro. 女流作家. A Woman Writer. Tokyo. Asahi Shimbun. 2000. 4022574526.
  15. Web site: Search result, Nishimura Kyotaro and Hanano Hitsugi. National Diet Library. 2016-11-30.
  16. Book: Nishimura, Kyotaro. 華の棺. A Flowery Coffin. Tokyo. Asahi Shimbun. 2006. 4022502193.
  17. Book: 司馬サンの大阪弁. Osaka Dialect of Mr. Shiba—the best essays of 1997. Japan Essayist Club. Bungeishunjū. 4-16-743415-6. 1997.
  18. Web site: 作家探偵・山村美紗—京都・東山 密室トリック殺人事件. Misa Yamamura, the Novelist Detective:a trick for locked-room murder, Higashiyama, Kyoto. TV Tokyo. 2016-11-30.
  19. Web site: 第0003回 昭和58年度 日本文芸大賞. the third Nihon Bungei Taishō. TOHAN Corporation. 2016-11-30.
  20. Among five finalists at the 16th Edogawa Ranpo Award announced on July 2, 1970.Web site: 第16回江戸川乱歩賞受賞作・候補作一覧. Edogawa Ranpo Award—list of recipients and candidates. 2016-11-30.
  21. Among five finalists at the 18th Edogawa Ranpo Award announced on June 28, 1972. Web site: 第18回江戸川乱歩賞受賞作・候補作一覧. Edogawa Ranpo Award—list of recipients and candidates. 2016-11-30.
  22. Among five finalists at the 19th Edogawa Ranpo Award announced on June 30, 1973. Web site: 第19回江戸川乱歩賞受賞作・候補作一覧. Edogawa Ranpo Award—list of recipients and candidates. 2016-11-30.
  23. Detailed list in
  24. Book: 花の棺 : 長編推理小説・書下ろし. Coffin of Flowers, a newly written mystery . 山村美紗. Kappa Novels. Kobunsha. Tokyo. 1975.
  25. Detailed list in
  26. Arranged with different graphics to PSP by Marvelous in 2009, which applied simplified polygon graphics instead of video by Pack-in-Video.

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