Shōtarō Ikenami

Grandfather Imai Kyosan is Gokenin in the house of adoption in the person of craftsman-Edo temperament was filled, and cherish the Shotaro on behalf of a busy mother.

Shotaro of primary school age in the future in favor of drawing Kiyokata Kaburaki while dreaming to be a disciple of, sword fight although the movie and the boys' story was enjoying great taste, a buy-eating in spending money to.

Shotaro in the Kabutocho era used this as "military funding", reading books, movies, watching theater, enjoying mountain climbing and traveling, going to the sword art dojo, eating and walking around, and indulging in Yoshiwara .

In 1941 (Showa 16), the Pacific War broke out, but the following year he retired from Matsushima Shoten and joined the National Labor Training Institute.

The following day, 1945 (Showa 20) On March 10, a house in Eijucho was burned due to the Tokyo air raid .

Immediately after returning to Tokyo, in October 1945, he saw the sixth generation Kikugoro Onoe 's Ginza Revival at the Imperial Theater .

He had already lost his home due to a raid, and because the landlord of the rented house returned from the evacuation area, he stayed in the government office and immersed himself in work, while playing for the Yomiuri Shimbun Drama Culture Prize, which was established this year.

The following year, while continuing to work at the ward office, he won the prize for the honorable mention at the South Wind Blowing Window.

Since then, Shotaro, who has deepened his relationship with the New Kingdom drama, is said to be a seated writer, while providing Tatsumi Yanagitaro and Shimada Shogo with "In the Cage" (1952) and " Watanabe Kazan " (1953), Even in novels, Hasegawa strongly recommended novels such as "In the Kitchen" (1954) in Shintakakai 's magazine "Daisen Literature" .

"The following year Tomitaro Makino," Yasushi Inoue "of the original Furinkazan such as", "Kurokumotani," "Zokusho", while staged one after another works in Shinkokugeki, continue asked regularly novel in the journal "public literary" Was.

In the early days, there were many contemporary works, but the November and December 1956 edition of Onda Woodwork (Sanada Riot) put historical and period novels at the center of writing.

On the other hand, as the playwright 1963 for Shinkokugeki in (1963) Hiroshi Shimozawa After performing the adaptation of the original "man hawk", cut off the relationship for a while theater-Shinkokugeki, so as to concentrate on the novel Was.

Shotaro, who entered the forties, published “Edo Phantom Thief” (“ Weekly Shincho ”, January 6, 64 issue), “Osen” (“Novel Hyundai”, July of the same year), and “Horibe Yasubei” (“ China ”). "

Historic novels at the same time include "Samurai Theater" ("Weekly Sankei", August 22, 1966- July 17, 67), "Isemori Kamiizumi (Tenchi no Tenchi)" ("Weekly Asahi", 67 April 28 issue - June 16 issue), "butterfly wing" (" Shinanomainichishinbun " in addition to the same year April 30 – 68 years March 31, 2008), "Isami Kondo dictionary" ("new criticism" October 1-March 1969).

Although he stayed up in the daytime and continued to write in the middle of the night, he was originally a fast-paced writer and traveled vigorously, including interviews, during his work, and he enjoyed watching movies and theater.

He wrote an autobiographical essay, "Youth Forgotten Things" ("Novel Shincho", January–December, 1968) at the request of the editor in charge in 1968 (Showa 43).

He introduced a fictional character named his old friend `` Rueyoshi Inoue '', but this work, which drew memories of the youth era, who enjoyed theater, reading, traveling, eating and walking, was set in Kabutocho before the war and received strong support from readers.

Modeled on Kabuki actor Nakamura Matagoro, the second generation who happened to see at a secondhand bookstore in Kyoto, he drew an old swordsman, Akiyama Kohei who retired as a couple with a girl like a grandson.

The series, in which the eldest son, Daijiro and the daughter of Yinji Tanuma, a female swordsman, Miyuki Sasaki, were set up to solve the incident that occurred in Ichi, Edo, also gained popularity.

In the same year, in the March issue of "Novel Contemporary", "Onnagoshi" was announced as the first work in the " Work-in-Progress, Fujieda Umeyasu " series.

In playwrights, in addition to Shinkoku-drama, Kabuki has also been screenplayed, including both the original and screenplay, "Debachi Uchidama" (February Kabukiza), "Kenkaku Business" (June Imperial Theater)), "killer-process people" (September Meiji seat involved in the stage of five) "Heihachi of Tegoshi" (November Meiji seat), the next 1976 years in addition, the "black cloud Pass" in the (April), "Edo woman drafts and implements・ Debuting Uchidama (October), Mayor, and Kyobana Tachibana Chobei (October).

1977 (1977) and more new series "Shinobi of the flag" ("Yomiuri Shimbun" evening edition November 26 – 78 years 22 August) began.

In the same year, he received the 11th Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Prize for his writer's activities centered on "Onihei Criminal Account Book", "Swordsman Commerce", and "Masaru Fujieda Umeyasu" . "

Ichimatsu Konojo Onna " (February) and "Sanada Taihei" (November) were staged and performed on the NHK "Let's Talk with This Person " and played the song "Picolino" in the movie " Top Hat ".

1978 (1978), "Onihei", "swordsman" other, "Journey" ("Sankei newspaper" May 13 – 79 years May 7 days) while starting a series of, "Woman of Aibiki" (February Kabukiza), script and direction for "Kisui" (November Meijiza).

1980 (1980), this year also, "Onihei", "swordsman" in addition to "Haiku of taste" (" Art Shincho " January - December) was serialized.

He also published a small book entitled "Shintaro Ikenami's Palette Play" from Kadokawa Shoten .

In addition, the "secret" ("Shukan Bunshun" February 6 issue - September 11 issue) writes, "all night was dramatized on the basis of the original of the" black cloud Pass, "said Shin Hasegawa of homebrew in Shinkokugeki performances of March Participation in the production of “Kenken” The Shinkoku drama was disbanded the following year, and it was the last time the troupe of Yukari Ikenami performed in his script.

Although he was not in good shape from the end of the previous year, he waited for recovery, but "Kenka Business Ups and Downs" ("Weekly Shincho" February–July), "Worker: Umeyasu Fujieda Umeyasu Winter Seasonal Rain" ("Novel Contemporary") December issue-), "Onihei Criminal Book Kidnapping" ("Details of All Reading" December issue-) has started serialization.

In November 1998 (Heisei 10), " Shintaro Ikenami Sanada Taiheikikan " was opened in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture .