忍ぶ川 (A Portrait of Shino)

Tetsuo Miura (1931-2010) was a Japanese author born in Aomori Prefecture.Japan Literature Publishing Project.com While studying at Waseda University, he won the Shincho Coterie Magazine Prize in 1955 and the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1961 for Shinobu Kawa (translated as Shame in the Blood), launching his career as one of Japan's foremost short-story writers.Japan Literature Publishing Project, Wikipedia His works, often exploring family tragedy and resignation to life's sorrows in a melancholic style, earned further honors including the Noma Literary Prize (1976), Japan Literature Grand Prize (1982), Osaragi Jiro Prize (1985), and Kawabata Prize (1990).Encyclopedia.com