Contemporary Japan seems to be a "ghost place" rich in "killer demons".
Horror movies and mystery novels, killing is an indispensable element, but all kinds of bizarre murders have always been "enduring".
Among them, if you find the most popular and popular representative, it is probably Sadako - that is, the fierce ghost sister who crawled out of the TV.
Sadako's full name, Sadako Yamamura, her surname, is often overlooked.
Today, the female writer we want to introduce, although it seems to have no direct relationship with Sadako, but "five hundred years ago it was a family" and the surname is the same.
She is also surnamed Yamamura (Yamamura), the name of the beautiful yarn, love pen and ink, weaving stories all around one theme: murder.
In the world of speculative fiction in contemporary Japan, Yamamura Misha has a place that cannot be ignored.
Miya Yamamura was born in 1931 in Kyoto.
Her family, full of scholars:
Her father taught at Kyoto University, one of Japan's top universities; she also had a younger brother who grew up to be a scholar.
Her husband, who became a painter in her twilight years, and her daughter, Yamamura Momiba, was quite artistic and became a TV star.
In contrast, Yamamura Misa is a bit bleak.
Yamamura Misha's teenage years were lackluster, ordinary girls in all aspects.
However, compared to many of her peers, Yamamura Misha is very lucky.
First of all, Kyoto, in the western part of Japan, has a strong humanistic tradition and peaceful folk customs, which is in stark contrast to the Kantō region, including Tokyo, which advocates force.
Yamamura's first fourteen years were the craziest phase in Japan's history: from "Nine-Eighteen" to defeat and surrender.
In Japan in those years, almost the whole country shouted for the war, and the dream of many young people was to put on military uniforms and put on military uniforms, under the command of "fierce generals" such as Yamamoto Isoroku or Okamura Ningji, to wear strong and sharp, siege the city and sink the ground, and plant plaster flags in all corners of the earth.
However, in western regions such as Kyoto and Osaka, the degree of popular fanaticism is significantly lower.
As a result, Yamamura Misa grew up in the local school and studied with peace of mind.
In addition, her family has a strong literary atmosphere, and her parents are more rational.
What Yamamura Misha has been hearing from childhood is not militarism, but formal dance skills and flower training.
This kind of cultural accomplishment is also reflected in her novels in the future.
However, in the early years of yamamura Misha, except for the better language, the others were bland.
After graduating from a short-term university, she worked as a Chinese (Mandarin) teacher at a local secondary school.
Incidentally, she was considered too old at the time. In order to qualify as a teacher, she changed her age to a few years before she barely passed.
She worked as a Chinese teacher for seven years, until she fell in love with and married a math teacher at the school, and then quit her job as a housewife.
In the blink of an eye, she is close to forty years old, and Yamamura Misha's life seems to be doomed to be lonely and nameless and do nothing.
At this time, she began to write novels and started a new life.
As early as her student days, Yamamura Misha loved to read murder and detective novels, and when she reached middle age, she also wanted to try to create it herself.
As soon as she debuted, she was the pinnacle, and her works were welcomed by all walks of life.
In 1970, she published The Strait of Love Killings, followed by two or three years of Black Ring Line and Pleasant Trench.
All three of these works were also nominated for the Edogawa Rambling Award. This award is one of the highest awards set by Japan for speculative fiction.
Since then, Yamamura Misa has successively created a number of masterpieces of homicidal reasoning.
She is good at setting up all kinds of strange suspense, killing unexpectedly, and when the truth is revealed, she is everywhere reasonable, which is amazing.
Most of these murders are based on the theme of traditional Japanese culture, and in the scenes full of Kyoto characteristics, they pay attention to exquisite trick arrangements, so Yamamura Misa has the reputation of "queen of tricks".
For example, her "Divorce Trip":
Actress Ah Xiang suddenly became popular, surrounded by many male admirers.
Her husband, Fujita, could not stand his wife's lifestyle and agreed to divorce her.
Before the divorce, the two people agreed to travel once to get together and disperse.
But in the journey, there are constantly life cases, and Ah Xiang's male fans, one by one, mysteriously die.
This caused Ah Xiang to fall into great terror, and his spirit was on the verge of collapse.
On the journey, a girl who loves mystery novels gets involved.
This girl is determined to use her wisdom to find out the black hand behind the scenes.
But the ultimate truth exceeded everyone's expectations. Ah Xiang's husband is innocent, and the real murderer is someone else...
Another of her works, The Death of a Maiko:
Xiao Jun, Xiao Xue and Xiao Ju, these three maiko passed the examination and became advertising models.
During the filming, they met a female star.
Since then, strange things have continued, and there have been many homicides in succession, and these cases have no clue.
The key to unlocking the "chamber of secrets" is actually a kitten.
The motive for killing is even more intriguing...
——Yamamura Misa's works, especially good at depicting women from the perspective of women, from bitter and bitter, to good and evil, are vivid.
Her work represents another style of Japanese female mystery novelists:
The narrative is brightly paced and the writing is mournful and gloomy, which contrasts the beautiful appearance with the complex and diverse inner world.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Yamamura Continued to introduce new works, most of which were best-selling, and were recognized by all walks of life and won high honors.
In 1983, she won the 3rd Japan Literary awards for "The Disappearing Continuator".
In 1992, he was awarded the 10th Kyoto Prefectural Cultural Awards and was recognized as a local cultural meritorious person in Kyoto.
Such an honor is rare in the contemporary Speculative Fiction community in Japan.
In 1996, while writing, Yamamura suffered a heart attack and died suddenly at the age of 65.
Her husband, who had only one paid job in his life: worked as a middle school math teacher.
After Yamamura's death, her husband soon retired.
However, her husband, out of nostalgia for his deceased wife, began a second career at the age of seventy: self-taught painting, which was mainly based on the portrait of Yamamura Misa.
Yamamura Misha is not very pretty, it looks ordinary, but the portrait of an ordinary woman is more artistically appealing.
These portraits have aroused the attention of all walks of life in Japan, and their artistic level has been widely recognized.
Yamamura Misha's daughter also entered the show business circle and became a well-known actress.
It can be said that the story of Yamamura Misa, behind her, is still continuing; her works are also constantly being reprinted.
Such a life can be described as dead and immortal, although dead is still alive...