Tachihara Masaaki
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Tachihara Maasaki (立原正秋, 6 January 1926 - 12 August 1980) was a Korean-Japanese (Zainichi Korean) author. His Korean name was Kim Yun Kyu (金胤奎: 김윤규), but he changed his name as Nomura Shintaro (野村震太郎) when he moved to Japan with his family. After that he called himself as Kanai Masaaki (金井正秋) for soshi-kaimei (enforcement of Japanese names), but when he married a Japanese woman, he changed his name as Yonemoto Masaaki (米本正秋).
Born in Korea to Korean parents on January 6, 1926, he moved with his mother to Yokosuka in 1935. Tachihara was strongly attracted to medieval Japanese culture, particularly Noh drama, ceramics, and traditional gardens, and his novels are patterned after Zeami’s Noh treatise Fushi Kaiden. He won both the Naoki Award and the Akutagawa Prize twice. One of his books, Wind and Stone, translated into English by Stephen W. Kohn, is highly appreciated in the West. Tachihara’s interests in Japanese culture led to his becoming a collector of ceramics including many Korean Yi Dynasty works. He lived in Kamakura from 1950 until his death om August 12 1980. Immediately before he died, he changed his name to Tachihara Masaaki officially.
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