Ryō Hanmura Explained

Birth Name:	Heitarō Kiyono
Birth Date:	27 October 1933
Birth Place:	Tatsuno, Hyogo, Japan
Death Place:	Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Genre:	Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Awards:	Naoki Prize for Amayadori 1988 Nihon SF Taisho Award

was a Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. His name is alternatively transliterated as Ryō Hammura. While he wrote books as Ryō Hanmura his real name was .^[1]

He won the first Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature for his novel in 1973.^[2] He won the Naoki Prize for his 1975 novel . He won also the 1988 Nihon SF Taisho Award.^[3]

One of his novels was the basis of the 1979 film . A series of role-playing video games called is loosely based on his novel by the same name.

Works in English translation

• • • Book: The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories . Barricade Books . 1997 . Dembner Books: 1989.
  • Book: Speculative Japan . Kurodahan Press . 2007. ^[4]
• (Book: The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories . Barricade Books . 1997 . Dembner Books: 1989.)

Works

Selected novels

• Book: Ishi no Ketsumyaku . Ishi no Ketsumyaku . ja:石の血脈 . . 1971.
• Book: Oyone Heikichi Toki no Ana Yuki . ja:およね平吉時穴道行 . . 1971.
• Book: Hikkakatta Haru . ja:ひっかかった春 . Freberu-kan . 1972.
• Book: Gunka no Hibiki . ja:軍靴の響き . Jitsugyou no Nippon-sha . 1972.
• Book: Musubi no Yama Hiroku . Musubi no Yama Hiroku . ja:産霊山秘録 . . 1973.
• Book: Ougon Densetsu . ja:黄金伝説 . Shouden-sha . 1973.
• Book: Eiyuu Densetsu . ja:英雄伝説 . Shouden-sha . 1973.
• Book: Akuukan Yousai . ja:亜空間要塞 . . 1974.
• Book: Waga Furusato wa Yomi no Kuni . ja:わがふるさとは黄泉の国 . Our Home in the Yomi. . 1974. (contained Sengoku Jieitai)
  • Book: Sengoku Jieitai . ja:戦国自衛隊 . Warring States Self-Defense Force. 1975.
• Book: Yōseiden . Yōseiden . ja:妖星伝 . Kodansha. 1975–1993.
• Book: Nisen-sanjūnen Tōhoku Jichiku. ja:二〇三〇年東北自治区. Tohoku Autonomous Region in 2030. Shinchosha. 1992.

etc.

References

• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, page 641

External links

• Hanbunko(半文居) Official Web Site (Japanese only)
• Brief obituary at Time under "Ryo Hammura"
  • • Hanmura Ryō in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Notes and References

1. Web site: 半村, 良, 1933-2002 . Web NDL Authorities . .
2. http://www4.city.kanazawa.lg.jp/11020/bungaku/kyouka/index.html Izumi Kyouka Bungaku Shou
3. Web site: Nihon SF Taisho Award Winners List. 2010-01-28. Science Fiction Writers of Japan. 2012-12-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20121213021520/http://www.sfwj.or.jp/list.e.html. dead.
4. http://www.kurodahan.com/mt/e/catalog/j0021cate.html Speculative Japan | Kurodahan Press