Rinzō Shiina
Rinzō Shiina (椎名 麟三 "Shiina Rinzō"; born 大坪 昇 "Noboru Ōtsuka"; 1 October 1911 – 28 March 1973) was a Japanese writer, novelist, short story writer and playwright. Shiina's best known works were written after 1950. His writing focused on the spiritual poverty of post-occupation Japan. Selected works. In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Rinzō Shiina, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 274 works in 433 publications in three languages and 1,530 library holdings.