Inagaki Taruho author biography, plus links to books by Inagaki Taruho.

Inagaki Taruho

Taruho Inagaki (1900–1977) was a prolific Japanese modernist writer known for his highly idiosyncratic voice and vision, which by the 1970s had gathered a cult-like following in Japan. While a young student at an international school in Kobe, he became fascinated with other cultures, aeronautics, astronomy, and attractive young men—interests that recur throughout his oeuvre. His best-known works include One Thousand One-Second Stories (1923), Miroku (1946), and The Aesthetics of Boy- Love (1968).

Taeko Kono (1926–2015) is one of the most significant Japanese writers in the twentieth century, whose work, often shocking and electrifying, interrogated prevailing myths and paradigms surrounding gender and sexuality in postwar Japan. She has been described as "one of the most radically talented writers of her generation" and as a "writer's writer" whose "often épater work was hailed for its spark and originality by writers such as Kenzaburo Ōe and Shūsaku Endō.

Nobuko Takagi is well known for works of a sensuous nature, in particular her book Translucent Tree, a story of love between an older couple. She traveled all over Asia and wrote a collection of stories inspired by her experiences as part of her "Soaked in Asia Project" at Kyushu University. "The Hole in the Sky" was one of those stories. Her story "Tomosui" (Two Lines Issue 24) received the Kawabata Yasunari Award in 2010.

Takako Takahashi (1932–2013) only began writing at the age of thirty-nine, following the death of her husband, the author Kazumi Takahashi. She converted to Catholicism in 1975, spending time in a Japanese convent and later living modestly in Paris. Her work is deeply engaged with existentialism, sexuality, and sin and is often dreamlike and disturbing, blurring the line between perception and hallucination. She won numerous major literary awards, including the Female Writers' Award, the Yomiuri Prize, and the Mainichi Arts Award.

This biography was last updated on 03/11/2025.

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