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508: 480: 20: 494: 116:(The Sting of Death, 1960). This theme was related to his wife's mental illness. At some point in 1955, the date is unclear, his wife became mentally ill to the point of requiring hospitalization. He then chose to live with her at the mental hospital, which was seen as a highly unusual action yet praised by 120:'s wife as showing "extraordinarily deep love." Although Shimao seems to have felt somewhat to blame for his wife's illness due to his past affairs and what he describes as his own selfishness. In 1955 he took her back to 559: 418: 379: 85:. The war ended while he was still waiting for his orders. His wartime experiences inspired his earliest works, including 554: 549: 236: 218: 319:"Reviewed work: Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature, Philip Gabriel" 564: 539: 569: 210: 228: 544: 65:
when he was eight. His mother died when he was seventeen and soon after he had a period of study in
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novelist. He has been called a "writer's writer", which is used as both a compliment and criticism.
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describes this period using his own name and that of his wife. That work was adapted for the film
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and his interest is said to be present with the title "The Sting of Death" being a reference to
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A second major theme in his work is that of madness in women, with notable examples in
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Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature
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in 1943. In 1944 he entered the military and was sent to Japan's southern
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Xavier's Legacies: Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture
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A possible third aspect is that in 1956 he converted to
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1960 Minister of Education Award for Art for novella
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Japanese
Yokohama
Kobe
Nagasaki
Kyushu University
Amami Islands
kamikaze
World War II
Catholic
Yutaka Haniya
Amami Ōshima
The Sting of Death
Catholicism
1 Corinthians 15
Tanizaki Prize
University of Michigan Press
ISBN
0-939512-18-1
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN
0-8248-2089-4
"Reviewed work: Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature, Philip Gabriel"
doi
10.2307/3591960
JSTOR
3591960
"The God That Failed: The Literary Trajectory of Shimao Toshio"
Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature
ISBN

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