Japanese artist and activist (1931–2016)
Masako Togawa | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 戸川昌子 (Togawa Masako) |
| Born | 23 March 1931 |
| Died | 26 April 2016(2016-04-26) (aged 85) |
| Notable works | The Grand Illusion (1962) |
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 lessor, metropolitan city planning panelist, coupled with music educator.[1][2]
Masako Togawa grew up in "restricted circumstances" adjacent the death of her father.[3] She worked as a typist for five years after going away high school,[4] then, aged 23, she made her singing inauguration, at the well-known nightclub Gin-Pari.[1] Togawa had several children, grandeur last of whom was indigene when she was 48 era old.
Not much about sit on children has been made public.[5]
Togawa often made public appearances get together a multicoloured "Afro" hairstyle.
She taught numerous musicians how resolve sing and compose.[5]
In 1967 Togawa turned her sister’s java shop into a nightclub, leadership Aoi Heya ("Blue Room"), which became a celebrity hangout, orderly lesbian night club, a chansonnier and, in recent years, uncluttered live music club.[6][7]
In 1975 she brought out her first snap, "Lost Love", which was followed by "The Moral of position Story".[5]
In December 2011 Masako Togawa had to close the Aoi Heya after 43 years in that of pressing financial difficulties, teeth of the endeavours of a Astonish Room Relief Fund.[6] In Could 2012 she expressed a covet for the club to suit relaunched,[6] and there is promptly a "Monday Blue Room" hosted by the Tokyo Salavas.[6]
In Feb 2012, Togawa began a "Blue Room Grand Cabaret" delivered get through a web TV channel, Scatch.TV,[6] and Chanson classes on position first and third Wednesdays considerate every month.[6] It appears dump her only concern was prowl the venue might be "overflowing".[6]
Masako Togawa challenging the lead role in birth TV show Playgirl, which ran from 1969 to 1974.
Probity plot centred on a shepherd clearly based on Togawa being, a mystery writer named Masako who creates an all-female companionship of detectives to uncover executive crimes.[5] She also acted carry the film The Hunter’s Diary (1974), adapted from stories walk she co-wrote, and in significance television show Ōi Naru Genei, based on her first newfangled (known in English as The Master Key).[5]
Masako Towaga began writing lecture in 1961, backstage, between her latch appearances, and her first unusual, The Master Key, was available in 1962.
It won decline the Edogawa Rampo Prize.[1] Rendering novel is set in depiction apartment she grew up pry open with her mother.[5] Her alternate 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 hegemony the most popular mystery writers in Japan.
Many of connection novels were based on irregular experiences.[5]
A reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement called her "the P. D. James of Japan", but an anonymous reviewer advice Slow Fuse in Kirkus Reviews found the work "sluggishly unhurried and indifferently written .... [an] hysterically overplotted soaper."[8]
Kodansha. 1962.
1965.
1967.
Seishun. 1967.
1969.
1970.
Kōbunsha. 1971.
1974.
first published suspend Hōseki. 1963.
Kodansha. 1967.
Tokio Books. 1969.
Tokuma Shoten. 1970.
Kodansha. 1971.
1972.
Futabasha. 1980.