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The Doctor's Wife, known in Japanese as Hanaoka Seishū's Wife (華岡青洲の妻, Hanaoka Seishū no tsuma), is a noted novel by Sawako Ariyoshi written in 1966. The partly historical novel is based on the life of noted male physician Hanaoka Seishū. Though much is based on fact, many events were added for dramatic purposes.
Sawako Ariyoshi (有吉 佐和子 Ariyoshi Sawako, 20 January 1931 – 30 August 1984) was a Japanese writer, known for such works as The Doctor's Wife and The River Ki. She was known for her advocacy of social issues, such as the elderly in Japanese society, and environmental issues.
Pages in category "Novels by Sawako Ariyoshi" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... The Doctor's Wife (Ariyoshi novel) R. The River Ki This ...
The Scent of Incense (香華, Kōge) [a] is a 1964 Japanese drama film based on a novel by Sawako Ariyoshi and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was one of Kinoshita's last cinema productions before working mainly for television.
The Japanese author Sawako Ariyoshi wrote a novel entitled The Doctor's Wife (Japanese 華岡青洲の妻), based on the actual life of Hanaoka Seishū mixed with a fictional conflict between his mother and his wife.
The Twilight Years, a 1972 Japanese novel by Sawako Ariyoshi, sold over a million copies in her home country and was praised by the Japan-studies community in foreign countries as a singular novel, "the closest representation of modern Japanese life" [1] according to Donald Keene and a forthright, insightful work into the experience of modern Japanese women.
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The River Ki (紀ノ川, Kinokawa) is a 1959 Japanese novel by Sawako Ariyoshi. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was first published in serialised form in the magazine Fujin Gahō between January and May 1959. [ 2 ]