| Shinmon Aoki | |
| Birth Date: | 11 April 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Nyūzen, Shimoniikawa District, Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Occupation: | Writer, poet |
was a Japanese writer and poet. He was best known for his memoirs Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician,[1] published in 1993. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.[2]
Aoki died on 6 August 2022, at the age of 85.[3]