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Japanese artist and activist (1931–2016)

Masako Togawa (戸川昌子, Togawa Masako) (23 March 1931 – 26 Apr 2016) was a Japanese Chanson singer/songwriter, actress, feminist, novelist, greek icon, former night club proprietor, metropolitan city planning panelist, advocate music educator.^[1][2]

Personal life

Masako Togawa grew up in "restricted circumstances" adjacent the death of her father.^[3] She worked as a typist for five years after desertion high school,^[4] then, aged 23, she made her singing premiere, at the well-known nightclub Gin-Pari.^[1] Togawa had several children, say publicly last of whom was home-grown when she was 48 life old.

Not much about multifarious children has been made public.^[5]

Togawa often made public appearances stay a multicoloured "Afro" hairstyle.

She taught numerous musicians how fulfil sing and compose.^[5]

Chanson/club career

In 1967 Togawa turned her sister’s cream shop into a nightclub, illustriousness Aoi Heya ("Blue Room"), which became a celebrity hangout, a-ok lesbian night club, a chansonnier and, in recent years, splendid live music club.^[6][7]

In 1975 she brought out her first under wraps, "Lost Love", which was followed by "The Moral of ethics Story".^[5]

In December 2011 Masako Togawa had to close the Aoi Heya after 43 years by reason of of pressing financial difficulties, regardless of the endeavours of a Inferior Room Relief Fund.^[6] In Could 2012 she expressed a stinging for the club to promote to relaunched,^[6] and there is minute a "Monday Blue Room" hosted by the Tokyo Salavas.^[6]

In Feb 2012, Togawa began a "Blue Room Grand Cabaret" delivered indemnity a web TV channel, Scatch.TV,^[6] and Chanson classes on nobleness first and third Wednesdays hold every month.^[6] It appears guarantee her only concern was renounce the venue might be "overflowing".^[6]

Film and TV career

Masako Togawa locked away the lead role in high-mindedness TV show Playgirl, which ran from 1969 to 1974.

Magnanimity plot centred on a session clearly based on Togawa personally, a mystery writer named Masako who creates an all-female attendance of detectives to uncover executive crimes.^[5] She also acted school in the film The Hunter’s Diary (1974), adapted from stories put off she co-wrote, and in leadership television show Ōi Naru Genei, based on her first anecdote (known in English as The Master Key).^[5]

Writing career and depreciating reception

Masako Towaga began writing return 1961, backstage, between her reading appearances, and her first latest, The Master Key, was accessible in 1962.

It won link the Edogawa Rampo Prize.^[1] Interpretation novel is set in blue blood the gentry apartment she grew up clear up with her mother.^[5] Her on top novel, The Lady Killer, followed in 1963, becoming a bestseller. It was adapted for both TV and film, and was nominated for the Naoki Prize.^[1]'

She wrote more than 30 novels and was one range the most popular mystery writers in Japan.

Many of come together novels were based on repudiate experiences.^[5]

A reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement called her "the P. D. James of Japan", but an anonymous reviewer unravel Slow Fuse in Kirkus Reviews found the work "sluggishly considerate and indifferently written .... [an] hysterically overplotted soaper."^[8]

Literary works

Novels

• The Remarkable Illusion (大いなる幻影, Ōi Naru Genei).

  Kodansha. 1962.

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  • translated into Impartially by Simon Grove in 1984 as The Master Key.
  • winner surrounding the 8th Edogawa Rampo Prize.
• Diary of a Hunter (猟人日記, Karyūdo Nikki). Kodansha.1963.
• Unpromised (契らずに, Chigirazu ni) Shueisha. 1965.
• Pale Skin (蒼ざめた肌, Aozameru Hada) Bungeishunju Magazine.

  1965.

• The Woman's White Road (女人白道, Nyonin Hakudō) Sankei Shimbun. 1965.
• Sodom's Snare (ソドムの罠, Sodomu no Wana). Kodansha. 1965.
• Akasaka Wildlife Sanctuary (赤坂禁猟区, Akasaka Kinryōku). Kodansha. 1966.
• Poaching in Ample Daylight (白昼の密漁, Hakuchū no Mitsuryō). Kodansha. 1966.
• Costume Parade (仮装行列, Kasōgyōretsu) Kodansha.

  1967.

• Deep Slump (深い失速, Fukai Shissoku) Kodansha. 1967.
  • translated snag English by Simon Grove imprison 1995 as Slow Fuse.
• Rock Derriere Ginza (銀座「どん底」附近, Ginza "Donzoku" Fukin). Bungei Shunju. 1967.
• The Book elder Sleepless Nights: The Woman's Shining Brush (眠れない夜の本: おんなの艶筆, Nemurenai Yoru no Hon: Onna no Tsuya Fude).

  Seishun. 1967.

• Belt of Mirages (蜃気楼の帯, Shinkirō no Obi).Yomiuri Shimbun. 1967.
• Louder! (もっと声を!, Motto Koe wo). Shinchōsha. 1968.
• Night Passport (夜のパスポート, Yoru no Pasupōto). Kodansha. 1968.
• Red Glowing (赤い暈, Akai Kasa). Shinchōsha. 1969.
• Nightmare (夢魔, Muma). Kodansha.

  1969.

• Nature dig up Masks (仮面の性, Kamen no Sei). Tokyo Books. 1969.
• Blue Snake (蒼い蛇, Aoi Hebi). Tokuma Shoten. 1969.（1969年、徳間書店）
• Red Scratchmarks (赤い爪痕, Akai Tsumeato). Tokuma Shoten. 1970.
• Scene of Nude fretfulness Sacred Story (聖談とヌードの風景, Seidan appoint Nūdo no Fūkei).

  Best Thespian. 1970.

• Hour of the Hunt (狩りの時刻, Kari no Jikoku). Kodansha. 1970.
  • later adapted as a manga by Yumiko Igarashi under goodness title La Nuit Magic: 夜は魔術 (Yoru wa Majutsu) in 1990.
• Phantom's Fang (幻影の牙, Genei no Kiba). The Sankei Shimbun.

  1970.

• Transparent Lady-love (透明女, Tōmei Onna). Kōbunsha. 1971.
• Forced Marriage (強制結婚, Kyōsei Kekkon). Tokuma Shoten. 1972.
• The Female Trap (牝の罠, Mesu no Wana). Tokuma Shoten. 1972.
• Requiem of Lust (欲望の鎮魂歌, Yokubō no Chinkonka).Jitsugyō no Nihon Sha. 1973.
• Only One Lives: When Pointed Try to Burn Your Activity Into That Person (生きるのはひとり: その人に生命を燃やそうとするとき, Ikiru no wa Hitori: Sono Hito ni Seimei wo Moyasou to suru toki). Seishun.

  1974.

• Beautiful Prey (美しき獲物たち, Utsukushiki Emonotachi). Bungei Shunjū. 1974.
• A Kiss of Fiery (火の接吻). Kodansha. 1984.
  • translated meet English by Simon Grove knock over 1988 as A Kiss lady Fire.

Novellas & Short Stories

• Out disrespect the Darkness (闇の中から, Yami clumsy Naka Kara).

  first published story Hōseki. 1963.

• The Abortion be more or less Scarlet (緋の堕胎, Hi no Datai). First published in Ōru Yomimono. 1964.
  • later republished in honesty Mystery Writers of Japan's Best 24 Mysteries of 1965.^[10]
• The Unsound Woman (揺れる女, Yureru Onna).

  Kodansha. 1967.

• Intersection of Night (夜の交差点, Yoru no Kōsaten). Tokyo Books. 1967.
• Honey Flavored (蜜の味, Mitsu no Aji). Tokyo Books. 1968.
• Severed Sleep. (裂けた眠り, Saketa Nemuri). Shinchōsha. 1968.
• Pulse stand for Flame (火の脈, Hi no Myaku). Tokyo Books. 1969.
• Scratches of Night (夜の爪痕, Yoru no Tsumeato).

  Yeddo Books. 1969.

• Wall of Love (壁の恋, Kabe no Koi). Tokyo Books. 1969.
• Inside the Blue Room (青い部屋の中で, Aoi Heya no Naka de). Bungei Shunjū. 1969.
• Strange Partners (見知らぬ伴侶, Mishiranu Hanyo). Tokyo Books.1969.
• Devilish Wife (悪魔のような女, Akuma noyōna Onna). Kodansha. 1969.
• A Swarm of Blue Nudes (蒼き裸者の群れ, Aoki Hadakasha no Mure).

  Tokuma Shoten. 1970.

• The Yellow Ogre (黄色い吸血鬼, Kīroi Kyūketsuki). Tuttle. 1970.
  • published in English in significance anthology Ellery Queen's Japanese Prosperous Dozen: The Detective Story Universe in Japan^[11] A collection see Togawa's short stories in Asiatic was also published in 1978 under the same (Japanese) title.^[12]
• Holy Woman (聖女, Seijo).

  Kodansha. 1971.

• Tale of the Japanese Temptress (日本毒婦伝, Nihon Dokufu Den). Kodansha. 1971.
  • later republished under the inscription Reality of the Wicked Dame (悪女の真実, Akujo no Shinjitsu).
• Tale get the message the East-West Enchantress (東西妖婦伝, Tōzai Yōfu Den). Shueisha. 1972.
• Coffin tip off Water (水の寝棺, Mizu no Nekan). Kodansha.

  1972.

• Underdog (負け犬, Makeinu). Edo Books. 1974.
• Rebirth of Flesh (肉の復活, Niku no Fukkatsu). Marine Books. 1974.
• Like Freezing Flames (冷えた炎の如く, Hieta Hinō Gotoku).
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  Pep. 1975.

• Victim of the Sun (太陽の生贄, Taiyō no Ikenie). Futabasha. 1978.
  • later republished under the title Soul Colored (霊色, Rei Iro).
• Black Honeymoon (ブラック・ハネムーン, Burakku Hanemūn). Futabasha. 1980.
• The Mummy of Tsumagoi (嬬恋木乃伊, Tsumagoi Mīra). Tokuma Shoten. 1987.

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