Takashi Matsuoka
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Takashi Matsuoka (born January 10, 1947) is a first-generation Japanese American writer. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, and worked at a Zen Buddhist temple before becoming a full-time writer. His books about American missionaries' visits to Japan are often compared to Shōgun and other books by British historical novelist James Clavell. Matsuoka also worked as a writer for the 1990 film Pale Blood.
Novels[]
- Cloud of Sparrows (2002)
- (2004)
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Categories:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American historical novelists
- American novelists of Asian descent
- American writers of Japanese descent
- Japanese emigrants to the United States
- Writers of historical fiction set in the modern age
- American novelist, 1940s birth stubs
- Asian American stubs