In the early 1930s, his writing became introspective, reflecting growing troubles in his personal life. His name became a household word after Secret Record of Naruto was serialized in the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun from then on his writing became much more popular. He first used this pen name with the serialization of Sword Trouble, Woman Trouble. He used 19 pen names before settling on Eiji Yoshikawa. In the following years he published stories in various periodicals published by Kodansha, who recognized him as their number one author. His experiences in the earthquake strengthened his resolve to make writing his career. He married Yasu Akazawa in 1923, the year of the Great Kantō earthquake. He joined the newspaper Maiyu Shimbun in 1921, and in the following year he began publishing serializations, starting with Life of Shinran. In 1914, with The Tale of Enoshima, he won first prize in a novel-writing contest sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. He joined a poetry society and started writing comic haiku under the pseudonym "Kijiro". Around this time he became interested in comic haiku. When he was 18, after a near-fatal accident working at the Yokohama docks, he moved to Tokyo and became an apprentice in a gold lacquer workshop. Because of his father's failed business, he had to drop out of primary school to work. He was born Hidetsugu Yoshikawa ( 吉川英次, Yoshikawa Hidetsugu) in Kanagawa Prefecture, in what is now a part of Yokohama. Fumiko Ikedo holds her first son Hideaki and Eiji Yoshikawa holds his second son Hideho. The complete translation of his "Miyamoto Musashi", in the west, is only available in Brazilian Portuguese Life He is cited as one of the best historical novelists in Japan. He was awarded the Cultural Order of Merit in 1960 (the highest award for a man of letters in Japan), the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Mainichi Art Award just before his death from cancer in 1962. His other books also serve similar purposes and, although most of his novels are not original works, he created a huge amount of work and a renewed interest in the past.
As an example, Yoshikawa took up Taiko's original manuscript in 15 volumes to retell it in a more accessible tone and reduce it to only two volumes. He was mainly influenced by classics such as The Tale of the Heike, Tale of Genji, Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many of which he retold in his own style. Among his best-known novels are revisions of older classics. Eiji Yoshikawa ( 吉川 英治, Yoshikawa Eiji, August 11, 1892 – September 7, 1962) was a Japanese historical novelist.
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