Shinmon Aoki (Japanese: 青木新門, Hepburn: Aoki Shinmon, 11 April 1937 – 6 August 2022) was a Japanese writer and poet.
He was best known for his memoirs Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician,[1] published in 1993.
The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death.
In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.
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