Jakucho Setouchi

, formerly , was a Japanese Buddhist nun, writer and activist.<ref name="aeon">Harding, Christopher. [http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/christopher-harding-psychoanalysis-buddhism  Couched In Kindness: "Jakucho Setouchi: a revered nun and famous novelist "]  Aeon Magazine. .</ref> Setouchi was known for her biographical novels written as first-person narratives. She is known for her 1998 translation of The Tale of Genji.

She was awarded the Women's Literary Prize in 1963 for Natsu no Owari.

Setouchi died of heart failure in Kyoto, Japan, on 9 November 2021, at the age of 99.

Prizes
 1962 Women's Literature Prize for Natsu no Owari 1992 Tanizaki Prize for Hana ni Toe 2001 Noma Prize in literature for Basho 2006 Order of Culture of Japan

Works
 Joshidaisei Chu Airin (1957) Qu Ailing the Coed—received the Shinchosha Coterie Magazine Award
 Miren (1963) Lingering Affections Kiji (1963) Pheasant translated by Robert Huey in 
 Beauty in Disarray translated by Sanford Goldstein and Kazuji Ninomiya 
 Natsu no owari (1963?) The End of Summer translated by Janine Beichman .  A collection of linked stories detailing her own adulterous affair.
 Hana ni toe (1992?) Ask the Blossoms, a novelized biography of the classical poet-priest Saigyo.
 Basho (2001) Places''

References

Other websites
 J'Lit | Authors : Jakucho Setouchi | Books from Japan

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