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Japanese novelist, translator, literary critic, art critic (1928–1987).
Born May 8th, 1928 in Shiba-ku.
Died August 5th, 1987 at 59 years old in Nishi-Shinbashi (laryngeal cancer).
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi