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Sokyu Genyu

玄侑宗久

Born 1956 · Japan

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2001 (first half) · Winner

    中陰の花

    Chūin no hana

    Title translated by AI:“Flower of the In-Between”

    Sokyu Genyu · 45 when first published

    Novella · 173 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:When Ume, a local medium, dies on the very day she predicted, a Zen priest conducting her rites finds his wife sensing the dead woman's presence and asking him what really becomes of people after death.

  • No English yet

    Akutagawa 2000 (second half) · Candidate

    水の舳先

    Mizu no hesaki

    Title translated by AI:“The Prow of the Water”

    Sokyu Genyu · 44 when first published

    Novel · 144 pages

    AI-generated summary:At a hot-spring retreat where the gravely ill gather for its healing spring, a Zen monk teaches calligraphy and counsels the guests, among them a cheerful but lonely Christian woman with terminal cancer.