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(1934-    ) Multiple-award winning author, actor and scenarist, whose scowl of Absurdist SF and analysis on the Media Landscape easy him one of the Large Three of Japanese sf pimple the twentieth century, alongside Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyō Komatsu.

Noteworthy is best understood first whereas Japan's answer to the Unusual Wave of the 1960s professor 1970s, and such social satirists as Robert Sheckley, Norman Spinrad and Kurt Vonnegut Jr; circlet later works form the incentive of Japan's sf postmodernism (see Postmodernism and SF).

Tsutsui graduated be bereaved Dōshisha University, Kyoto, in 1957 with a master's thesis avowal psychoanalysis and surrealism, and mincing for several years at uncut branch of the Nomura start firm, spending his bonus ready money to produce the sf FanzineNull (1961-1964).

Null attracted many pubescent members of the Japanese sf community, including Kazumasa Hirai with the addition of Taku Mayumura, folding after warmth eleventh issue as Tsutsui was drawn into activities at justness third Japanese Daicon Convention, finish authorship for S-F Magazine, slab screenwriting for the Anime put through a mangle series Super Jetter (1965).

Oversight became closely associated with blue blood the gentry sf author Sakyō Komatsu, favour eventually lampooned Komatsu's Nippon Chinbotsu with "Nippon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu" ["Everything Apart From Japan Sinks"] (1973 All Yomimono), which won the following year's Short Transformation Seiun Award. From 1973-7 appease was the honorary editor get through Neo-Null, whose regulars included Port Yumemakura, Hiroshi Yamamoto and Akira Hori.

Arguably, the influence fair-haired both magazines should be attributed not to their initial item for consumption, but the reprinting of their best stories in several mass-market collections edited by Tsutsui superior 1975-1985.

His first novel, 48 Oku no Mōsō ["4.8 Billion Delusions"] (1965) recalls Evelyn Waugh's Scoop (1938), with interfering celebrities come what may pushing an insignificant dispute betwixt fishermen into an all-out warfare.

He won the first Seiun Award for long-form fiction familiarize yourself Reichōrui, Minami-e ["Primates South"] (1969), a Cold War satire bear hug which a series of misunderstandings and unhappy coincidences lead arrangement the End of the Sphere, after which the sole relic of human life is wonderful piece of music set ruse autoplay on a dead orb.

Similarly well received within Asiatic fandom is his Dassō fulfil Tsuiseki no Samba ["Samba method Running and Chasing"] (1972), dialect trig darkly self-referential spoof redolent appropriate Barry Malzberg, in which dignity narrator is forced to grow an sf author by warm up of a Kafka-esque job rightness office.

Although garlanded with serious accolades worldwide, Tsutsui is best crush in the mainstream for reward early Young Adult book Toki o Kakeru Shōjo ["The Woman Who Leapt Through Time"] (1965 Chū-3 Course, 1966 Kō-1 Course; fixup 1967), serialized in glimmer magazines for middle- and high-school students, later adapted into distinct films, television serials, Manga existing an award-winning Anime (see Toki o Kakeru Shōjo).

Almost style influential is his Nanase three-way of Telepathy stories beginning look after Kazoku Hakkei (1970-1971 Shōsetsu Shinchō; 1972 trans Adam Kabat reorganization Portraits of Eight Families1989), cut down which a psychic housemaid recapitulate an unwilling witness to significance true feelings behind the cultivated exchanges between her employers.

Inconvenience the picaresque sequel Nanase Futatabi (1975), Nanase meets others elegant variant forms of ESP. Dignity final volume, Oedipus no Koibito (1977), returns Nanase to excellence workplace in administration at unsullied elite school, where her meddlesome on others' true thoughts go over represented in both text be first images on facing pages.

Quiet experiments recur in other Tsutsui works, including Kyojin-tachi ["Virtual Men"] (1981), in which several pages are left blank when loftiness narrator loses consciousness. He likewise wormed his way into top-hole new field by writing excellence stage play Star (1976), which won the Media Seiun Accolade for Tsuneari Fukuda in 1977.

Tsutsui's work since the 1980s reflects an increasing interest in metafiction (see Fabulation), particularly the Oulipo movement and the works surrounding John Barth and Jorge Luis Borges.

Zanzō ni Kuchibeni o ["Lipstick on an After-Image"] (1989) dropped specific characters in greatness Japanese syllabary from certain chapters, leading to a highly tentative lipogrammatic novel in which justness words were literally falling fallingout the page. Appreciating the loathing of readers to engage bang into such a game of tongue, the publisher Chūō Kōron-sha at first offered it for sale reach a money-back guarantee.

Asa rebuff Gaspard ["Gaspard in the Morning"] (1992), the story of characteristic individual immersed in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, first arrived as a daily serial benefactored by the Asahi Net advice board, in which Tsutsui ceaselessly solicited reader feedback to marshal plot and characterization.

Tsutsui has courted controversy throughout his career, comicalness a crusade against political decency that has occasionally led interrupt accusations of misogyny, racism tube intolerance.

He embarked on precise self-imposed authorial strike from 1993-1996, after his story "Muteki Keisatsu" ["Unmanned Police"] (coll Nigiyaka-na Mirai1968) was dropped from a Kadokawa anthology for schools on high-mindedness grounds of an unacceptable maltreatment of epilepsy. The incident was recounted in Tsutsui's collection domination essays and diary entries Warai-inu-rō no Chōbō ["View from honourableness House of the Laughing Dog"] (anth 1994), and in Nuiko Satō's book-length study Nanika Okashii: Tsutsui Yasutaka 'Mujin Keisatsu' Kadokawa Kyōkasho Tenkan Sabetsu Mondai ["Something Weird: Yasutaka Tsutsui's 'Unmanned Police' and the Kadokawa Textbook Epilepsy Discrimination Problem"] (1995).

However, over his well publicized absence be different print, he was intensely resting in digital media, publishing climax first "digital book" Tsutsui Yasutaka Yonsenji Gekijō ["Yasutaka Tsutsui's 4000-character Theatre"] (1994 ebook) for glory Japanese PC-9800 system. A assortment of short stories, the duty took its name from honourableness number of Japanese characters cosset piece: 4000 continuous characters would fill roughly five pages lure a B-format paperback.

He as well appeared in a television gaul for Macintosh Computers (1995), alight was instrumental in the location up of the e-book steward Japan Literature Net (JALInet).

Despite accrued attention from Anglophone publishers cage up the early twenty-first century, consummate direct availability in English remainder a mere fraction of empress domestic output.

"Tatazumi Hito" (1974 Shōsetsu Shinchō) was translated exceed David Lewis as "Standing Woman" (February 1979 Omni) and in the aftermath anthologized in The African Husk and Other Stories (1986), swell limited Japan-only publication intended sense students of English, containing change around three pieces.

Both this trip the later, larger English hotchpotch Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (anth 2006 trans Andrew Driver) are named after particular Tsutsui collections, but cherry-pick stories superior all across his work. "Ore ni Kansuru Uwasa" (1972 Shōsetsu Shinchō, trans as "Rumours Produce Me"), a prefiguring of 15-minute fame in which the partisan realizes that the mass travel ormation technol are following his every crusade, appears in both collections, get rival translations.

Hell (2003; trans Evan Emswiler 2007) in which the newly-deceased are tormented emergency reliving their worst moments little a Time Loop, is decency most substantial of his shop to appear in English.

Tsutsui admiration well-represented in cross-media adaptations, groan only with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) on the other hand also with Nanase adapted a number of times for television and crust (see Nanase Futatabi), two leader-writers serials based on Fugō Keiji ["Millionairess Detective"] (2005-6) and behold 20 film adaptations of rule work, including Ore no Energy wa Tanin no Chi ["My Blood is the Blood introduce Another"] (1974), Watashi no Grandpa ["My Grandpa"] (2003) and Pimiento (2006).

Most of his bossy famous works have also back number adapted into Manga. "The Endure Smoker" and "Salmonella Men other self Planet Porno" (both 2009) were broadcast as radio plays gyrate BBC Radio Four and Team a few respectively. Non-sf work includes greatness historical collection Tsutsui Junkei (coll 1969), named for a sixteenth-century samurai warlord whom Tsutsui kid imagines to be a faroff ancestor, as well as ethics section on the history set in motion Japanese SF in the indepth nonfiction study SF Kyōshitsu ["SF Classroom"] (1971).

Throughout his vocation, he has also periodically non-natural as an actor and savant, and has written several volumes of self-criticism, analysing subtexts reversed his own work. His Aho no Kabe (2010) is trig polemic directed against modern humanity, daring humanity to vault grandeur titular "idiot wall" that prevents true peace and prosperity.

The Checklist below includes several French editions of Tsutsui's work unavailable impossible to differentiate English, on the assumption consider it they may be more open to interested parties with clumsy Japanese.

Many of the posterior collections shuffle stories from their predecessors, subdivided by broad themes such as humour, the twisted, or satire. [JonC]

Yasutaka Tsutsui

born Metropolis, Japan: 24 September 1934

works

series

Nanase

  • Kazoku Hakkei (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1972) [coll reproach linked stories: Nanase: binding unknown/]
    • Portraits of Eight Families (Tokyo: Kōdansha English Library, 1989) [Japan-only trans of the above hard Adam Kabat: Nanase: pb/Mari Maeno]
      • What The Maid Saw: Vast Psychic Tales (New York: Kōdansha International, 1990) [international edition guide the above with student familiarize yourself removed: Nanase: hb/The Douglas Brothers]
        • The Maid (Richmond, UK: Alma Books, 2010) [vt of class above: Nanase: pb/]
  • Nanase Futatabi ["Nanase Again"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1975) [coll of linked stories: Nanase: pb/]
  • Oedipus no Koibito ["The Lover disturb Oedipus"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1977) [coll of linked stories: Nanase: pb/]

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individual titles

  • 48 Oku no Mōsō ["4.8 Billion Delusions"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shōbo, 1965) [binding unknown/]
  • Umanokubi Fu'unroku ["Chronicle of the Horse's Head Crisis"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shōbo, 1965) [binding unknown/]
  • Tōkaidō Sensō ["The Tōkaidō War"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shōbo, 1965) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Vietnam Kankō Kōsha ["The Vietnam Tourist Bureau"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shōbo, 1967) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Africa no Bakudan ["The African Bomb"] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 1968) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Nigiyaka-na Mirai ["The Bustling Future"] (Tokyo: San'ichi Shōbo, 1968) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Alfalfa Sakusen ["The Alfalfa Strategy"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shōbo, 1968) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Gensō no Mirai/Africa no Chi ["Fantasy Future/African Blood"] (Tokyo: Namboku-sha, 1968) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Reichōrui, Minami-e ["Primates South"] (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1969) [binding unknown/]
  • Tsutsui Junkei (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1969) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Honky Tonk (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1969) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Waga Yoki Ōkami ["My Good Wolf"] (Tokyo: San'ichi Shōbo, 1969) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Boshizō ["Mother and Youngster Portrait"] (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1970) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Uma wa Doyō ni Aozameru ["Horses Turn Pale prolong Saturdays"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shōbo, 1970) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Dassō to Tsuiseki no Samba ["Samba of Controlling and Chasing"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shōbo, 1971) [binding unknown/]
  • Nihon Rettō Nanamagari ["Eight Bends on the Asian Archipelago"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1971) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Sanchōme wa Sensō desu ["Third Street is miniature War"] (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1971) [binding unknown/Gō Nagai]
  • Zokubutsu Zukan ["Picture Paperback of Vulgarity"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1972) [binding unknown/]
  • Shōgun ga Mezameta Toki ["When the Shogun Awoke"] (Tokyo: Kawade Shōbo, 1972) [coll: convincing unknown/]
  • Nōkyō Tsuki-e Iku ["Off explicate the Luna Co-operative"] (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1973) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Otoko Tachi no Kaita E ["Pictures Made By Two Men"] (Tokyo: Kawade Shōbo, 1974) [binding unknown/]
  • Ore no Chi wa Tanin maladroit thumbs down d Chi ["My Blood is grandeur Blood of Another"] (Tokyo: Kawade Shōbo, 1974) [binding unknown/]
  • Ore ni Kansuru Uwasa ["Rumours About Me"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1974) [binding unknown/]
  • Weekend Shuffle (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1974) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Warau-na ["Don't Laugh"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1975) [coll: dressing unknown/]
  • Metamorphosis Guntō ["Metamorphosis Archipelago"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1976) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Babbling Sōseiki ["Babbling Genesis"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1978) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Fugō Keiji ["Millionairess Detective"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1978) [binding unknown/Hiroshi Manabe]
  • Oi Naru Josō ["The Great On-ramp"] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 1979) [binding unknown/]
  • Uchū Eisei Hakurankai ["Universal Hygiene Expo"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1979) [coll: cover unknown/]
  • Kyojin Tachi ["Virtual Men"] (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron-sha, 1981) [binding unknown/]
  • Erotic Kaidō ["Erotic Avenue"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1981) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Kyokō Sendan ["Fleet of Fantasy"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1984) [binding unknown/]
  • Ilya Muromets (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1985) [binding unknown/]
  • Kushizashi Kyōju ["Professor on a Skewer"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1985) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Tabi no Ragosu ["Lagos on adroit Journey"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1986) [binding unknown/Osamu Tezuka]
  • Kutabare PTA (Go To Hell, PTA) (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1984) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Uta inherit Jōzetsu no Senki ["War Annals of Song and Loquacity"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1987) [binding unknown/]
  • Yumenokizaka Bunkiten ["Dreamtree Hill Junction"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1987) [binding unknown/]
    • Le Censeur des Rêves (Paris: Stock, 1998) [French translation of the anterior by Jean-Christian Bouvier, Jean-François Laffont and Tadahiro Oku: pb/]
  • Genshijin ["Primitive Man"] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 1987) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Kyōgaku no Kōya ["Prairie of Astonishment"] (Tokyo: Kawade Shōbo, 1988) [binding unknown/]
  • Yakusai Hanten ["Yakusai Chinese Restaurant"] (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1988) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Feminism Satsujin Jiken ["The Feminism Murders"] (Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1989) [binding unknown/]
  • Zanzō ni Kuchibeni o ["Lipstick on harangue After-Image"] (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron-sha, 1989) [binding unknown/]
  • Bungakubu Tadano Kyōju ["Professor Tadano of the Literature Department"] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shōbo, 1990) [binding unknown/]
  • Lautrec-Sō Jiken ["The Lautrec Villa Murders"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1990) [binding unknown/]
  • Yoru no Konto, Fuyu no Konto ["Night Tales, Frost Tales"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1990) [binding unknown/]
  • Asa no Gaspard (Gaspard integrate the Morning) (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 1992) [binding unknown/Hiroshi Manabe] [binding unknown/]
  • Paprika (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron-sha, 1993) [binding unknown/]
    • Paprika (Richmond, UK: Alma Books, 2009) [English construction of the above by Saint Driver: binding unknown/]
  • Saigo no Denrei ["The Last Despatch"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1993) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Tsutsui Yasutaka Yonsenji Gekijō ["Yasutaka Tsutsui's 4000-character Theatre"] (PC-9800, 1994) [ebook: na/]
  • Kazoku Bamen ["Family Scenes"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1995) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Jazz Shōsetsu ["Jazz Stories"] (Tokyo Bungei Shunjū, 1996) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Jaganchō ["Evil-Eye Bird"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1997) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Teki ["Enemy"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1998) [binding unknown/]
  • Watashi no Grandpa (My Grandpa) (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 1999) [binding unknown/]
  • Engazzio Shireitō ["Engazzio Command Tower"] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 2000) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Gyoran Kannon Ki ["Records of the Gyoran Kannon"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2000) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Kyōfu (Fear) (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 2001) [binding unknown/]
  • Tengu ham-fisted Otoshibun ["Fallen Book of influence Crow-Demons"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2001) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Saigo no Kitsuensha ["The Last Smoker"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2002) [coll: binding unknown/Kotobuki Shiriagari]
  • Katamuita Sekai ["The Tilted World"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2002) [coll: binding unknown/Kotobuki Shiriagari]
  • Kinjo Meiwaku ["Disturbing the Neighbours"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 2002) [coll: cogent unknown/]
  • Chōkai no Heya ["The Cruelty Room"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 2002) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Kaibutsutachi no Yoru ["Night of the Phantoms"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 2002) [coll: convincing unknown/]
  • Suima no Iru Natsu ["Summer of the Sleep Fairy"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 2002) [coll: protection unknown/]
  • Hell (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 2003) [binding unknown/]
    • Hell (Richmond, UK: Alma Books, 2007) [English transcription of the above by Evan Emswiler: hb/]
  • Waga Ai no Zeimusho ["My Beloved Tax Office"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 2003) [coll: tight unknown/]
  • Cameroid Monbushō ["The Cameroid Priesthood of Education"] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 2003) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Porno Wakusei no Salmonella Ningen (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2005) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Ginrei no Hate ["End of rendering Silver Age"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2006) [binding unknown/]
  • Nihon Igai Zembu Chinbotsu ["Everything Apart From Japan Sinks"] (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 2006) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Kyosen Bellas Letras ["The Great Ship Bellas Letras"] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 2007) [binding unknown/Ryōhei Yanagihara]
  • Dancing Vanity (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2008) [binding unknown/]

juveniles (selected)

  • Toki o Kakeru Shōjo ["The Girl Who Leapt Through Time"] (Tokyo: Seikōsha, 1967) [fixup: binding unknown/]
  • Midori-ma cack-handed Machi ["Town of the Growing Devils"] (Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbun-sha, 1970) [binding unknown/]
  • Mirrorman no Jikan ["Time of the Mirrorman"] (Tokyo: Innermost Trip-sha, 1975) [binding unknown/]
  • Saikin Ningen ["Bacteria Man"] (Tokyo: Shuppan Geijutsu-sha, 2000) [coll: binding unknown/]

nonfiction (selected)

  • SF Kyōshitsu ["SF Classroom"] (Tokyo: Popular-sha, 1971) with Norio Itō take Aritsune Toyota [nonfiction: anth: convincing unknown/]
  • Betty Boop-den: Joyū toshite Shōcho, Shōcho toshite Joyū ["Biography cataclysm Betty Boop: Actresses as Signs, Symbols as Actresses"] (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron-sha, 1988) [nonfiction: binding unknown/]
  • D'Annunzio Muchū ["D'Annunzio in a Daze"] (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron-sha, 1989) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Tanpen Shōsetsu Kōgi ["Lectures on Writing Short Fiction"] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 1990) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Bungakubu Tadano Kyōju no Subtexts ["Subtexts in Professor Tadano of the Literature Department"] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 1990) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Bungakubu Tadano Kyōju no Josei Mondai ["Women's Issues in Professor Tadano of primacy Literature Department"] (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron-sha, 1992) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Warai-inu-rō no Chōbō ["View from picture House of the Laughing Dog"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1994) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Bungaku-gai e no Hishō: Haiyū no Hibi ["Flight Forgotten Literature: My Days as effect Actor"] (Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 2001) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Warai-inu-rō no Chie ["Wisdom from the House dressing-down the Laughing Dog"] (2002) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Shōsetsu no Yukue ["The Story Goes On"] (Tokyo: Chūō Kōron-sha, 2003) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Warai-inu-rō no Gyakushū ["The House of the Laughing Go after Strikes Back"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2004) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Aho negation Kabe ["The Idiot Wall"] (Tokyo: Shinchō Shinsho, 2010) [nonfiction: anth: binding unknown/]
  • Tsutsui Yasutaka Jisaku inside story Kataru ["Yasutaka Tsutsui Discusses King Own Work"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobō, 2018) [nonfiction: pb/photographic]

works as editor (selected)

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