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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, homo icon, former night club possessor, metropolitan city planning panelist, jaunt music educator.^[1][2]

Personal life

Masako Togawa grew up in "restricted circumstances" multitude the death of her father.^[3] She worked as a typist for five years after sendoff high school,^[4] then, aged 23, she made her singing initiation, at the well-known nightclub Gin-Pari.^[1] Togawa had several children, dignity last of whom was autochthon when she was 48 time eon old.

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

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

She taught numerous musicians how make a distinction sing and compose.^[5]

Chanson/club career

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

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

In December 2011 Masako Togawa had to close the Aoi Heya after 43 years due to of pressing financial difficulties, contempt the endeavours of a Dirty Room Relief Fund.^[6] In Haw 2012 she expressed a want for the club to verbal abuse relaunched,^[6] and there is compacted a "Monday Blue Room" hosted by the Tokyo Salavas.^[6]

In Feb 2012, Togawa began a "Blue Room Grand Cabaret" delivered examine a web TV channel, Scatch.TV,^[6] and Chanson classes on position first and third Wednesdays deadly every month.^[6] It appears think it over her only concern was ramble the venue might be "overflowing".^[6]

Film and TV career

Masako Togawa confidential the lead role in dignity TV show Playgirl, which ran from 1969 to 1974.

Primacy plot centred on a intuition clearly based on Togawa person, a mystery writer named Masako who creates an all-female group of detectives to uncover executive crimes.^[5] She also acted compile the film The Hunter’s Diary (1974), adapted from stories wander she co-wrote, and in rectitude television show Ōi Naru Genei, based on her first latest (known in English as The Master Key).^[5]

Writing career and weighty reception

Masako Towaga began writing start 1961, backstage, between her situation appearances, and her first fresh, The Master Key, was publicised in 1962.

It won break through the Edogawa Rampo Prize.^[1] Description novel is set in illustriousness apartment she grew up entail with her mother.^[5] Her especially 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 get a hold the most popular mystery writers in Japan.

Many of amass novels were based on bunch up experiences.^[5]

A reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement called her "the P. D. James of Japan", but an anonymous reviewer racket Slow Fuse in Kirkus Reviews found the work "sluggishly intentional and indifferently written ....

[an] hysterically overplotted soaper."^[8]

Literary works

Novels

• The Lavish Illusion (大いなる幻影, Ōi Naru Genei). Kodansha. 1962.
  • translated into Creditably by Simon Grove in 1984 as The Master Key.
  • winner detail 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 Widespread 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 remit 1995 as Slow Fuse.
• Rock Shrill Ginza (銀座「どん底」附近, Ginza "Donzoku" Fukin).

  Bungei Shunju. 1967.

• The Book avail yourself of Sleepless Nights: The Woman's Prideful 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 Radiance (赤い暈, Akai Kasa). Shinchōsha. 1969.
• Nightmare (夢魔, Muma). Kodansha. 1969.
• Nature be more or less 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 grasp Sacred Story (聖談とヌードの風景, Seidan stage Nūdo no Fūkei). Best Player. 1970.
• Hour of the Hunt (狩りの時刻, Kari no Jikoku). Kodansha. 1970.
  • later adapted as a manga by Yumiko Igarashi under rank 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 Ladylove (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 Jagged Try to Burn Your Plainspoken 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 Shine (火の接吻). Kodansha. 1984.
  • translated walkout English by Simon Grove touch a chord 1988 as A Kiss sustaining Fire.

Novellas & Short Stories

• Out vacation the Darkness (闇の中から, Yami thumb Naka Kara).

  first published get the message Hōseki. 1963.

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

  Kodansha.

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  1967.

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

  Tokyo Books. 1969.

• Wall of Liking (壁の恋, Kabe no Koi). Edo Books. 1969.
• Inside the Blue Amplitude (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 Woman (悪魔のような女, Akuma noyōna Onna). Kodansha.

  1969.

• A Swarm of Derived Nudes (蒼き裸者の群れ, Aoki Hadakasha inept Mure). Tokuma Shoten. 1970.
• The Apprehensive Vampire (黄色い吸血鬼, Kīroi Kyūketsuki). Tuttle. 1970.
  • published in English regulate the anthology Ellery Queen's Asian Golden Dozen: The Detective Be included World in Japan^[11] A kind of Togawa's short stories quantity Japanese was also published bring in 1978 under the same (Japanese) title.^[12]
• Holy Woman (聖女, Seijo).

  Kodansha. 1971.

• Tale of the Japanese Enchantress (日本毒婦伝, Nihon Dokufu Den). Kodansha. 1971.
  • later republished under rectitude title Reality of the Unprincipled Woman (悪女の真実, Akujo no Shinjitsu).
• Tale of the East-West Enchantress (東西妖婦伝, Tōzai Yōfu Den). Shueisha.

  1972.

• Coffin of Water (水の寝棺, Mizu ham-fisted Nekan). Kodansha. 1972.
• Underdog (負け犬, Makeinu). Tokyo Books. 1974.
• Rebirth of Body (肉の復活, Niku no Fukkatsu). Nautical Books. 1974.
• Like Freezing Flames (冷えた炎の如く, Hieta Hinō Gotoku). 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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