Renzaburō Shibata
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Renzaburō Shibata (柴田錬三郎, Shibata Renzaburō, March 26, 1917 – June 30, 1978) was a Japanese author and Sinologist.[1] He graduated from Keio university.[1] He wrote a number of historical novels, and published a new Japanese translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in 1959.[2] In 1951,he won Naoki Prize. He is famous for his novel Nemuri Kyōshirō series.[3][4]
Novels[]
- Nemuri Kyōshirō (1956)
- Gokenin Zankurō (1976)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Water Margin
- Unmeitōge
- Iesu no Ei (lit. Descendant of Jesus)
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Categories:
- 1917 births
- 1978 deaths
- 20th-century Japanese novelists