Shumon Miura

Japanese novelist

三浦朱門

Miura with Ayako Sono, his wife in 1955

Head of the Japan Art AcademyIn office
2004–2014Preceded byTadashi InumaruSucceeded byKuroi SenjiCommissioner of the Cultural Affairs AgencyIn office
1 April 1985 – 1 September 1986Preceded byIsao SuzukiSucceeded byHitoshi Ōsaki Personal detailsBorn(1926-01-12)12 January 1926
Tokyo City, Tokyo PrefectureDied3 February 2017(2017-02-03) (aged 91)
TokyoNationalityJapaneseSpouse

Ayako Sono

(m. 1953⁠–⁠2017)

Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Shumon Miura (三浦朱門, Miura Shumon, 12 January 1926 – 3 February 2017) was a Japanese novelist.

He attended the University of Tokyo, and upon graduation joined the staff of the literary magazine Shin-Shicho (新思潮: "New Thought") in 1950. The next year, Miura published his first book.^[1] He then married fellow Third Generation writer Ayako Sono in 1953, with whom he wrote many books about Catholicism and religion. Miura began teaching at Nihon University in 1967, the same year he was awarded the Shinchosha Prize. From 1985 to 1986, he was commissioner of the Cultural Affairs Agency. In 1999, the Japanese government designated Miura a Person of Cultural Merit.^[2] In 2004, Miura was appointed to lead the Japan Art Academy. He stepped down in 2014, and died at a hospital in Tokyo due to pneumonia on 3 February 2017, aged 91.^[3]

References

^ "Obituary / Shumon Miura / Author". Yomiuri Shimbun. 5 February 2017. Archived from the original on 6 February 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
^ "Muere Shumon Miura, novelista japonés de la "tercera generación"". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). 5 February 2017. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017 – via El Universal. Alt URL
^ "'Third Generation' novelist Shumon Miura dies at 91". Japan Times. 5 February 2017. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2017 – via The Manichi. Alt URL