Toyoko Yamasaki
Born	Toyoko Sugimoto (1924-11-03)3 November 1924 Osaka, Japan
Died	29 September 2013(2013-09-29) (aged 88) Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Journalist, Novelist
Language	Japanese
Education	Japanese literature
Alma mater	Kyoto Women's University
Period	1957-2013
Genre	Novel
Subject	Osaka Merchants, Social Issues
Notable works	Hana Noren,Shiroi Kyotō,Shizumanu Taiyō
Notable awards	Naoki Prize (1958) Osaka Prefecture's Art Prize (1959) Fujin Koron Readers' Prize (1962 and 1968) Kikuchi Kan Prize (1991) Bungei Shunju Readers' Prize (1991) Mainichi Culture Prize (2009)
Spouse	Kamekuo Sugimoto (杉本亀久雄, 1961 - died 1992)[1]

Toyoko Yamasaki (山崎 豊子,Yamasaki Toyoko; real nameSugimoto Toyoko (杉本 豊子); 3 November 1924 – 29 September 2013)^[2][3] was aJapanesenovelist.

A native ofOsaka, Yamasaki worked as ajournalist for theMainichi Shimbun from 1945 to 1959 after graduating fromKyoto Women's University inJapanese literature. She published her first story,Noren (1957), a story of a kelp trader, based on the experiences of her family's business. The following year, she won theNaoki Prize for her second novelHana Noren, the story about the founder of an entertainment group. A major influence on her writings of that period wasYasushi Inoue, who was deputy head of the Mainichi Shimbun's cultural news desk.^[4]

Yamasaki wrote some stories based on actual events. For example,Futatsu no Sokoku is derived from thebiography of aJapanese American David Akira Itami,^[5] andShizumanu Taiyō is based on theJapan Air Lines Flight 123 accident.^[6]Several works of hers were featured infilms andtelevision dramas.

• Schierbeck, Sachiko; Edelstein, Marlene (1994).Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. pp. 153–156.
• NHK obituary

• Toyoko Yamasaki atIMDb

• 1924 births
• 2013 deaths
• Writers from Osaka
• 20th-century Japanese novelists
• 21st-century Japanese novelists
• Naoki Prize winners

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