In Japan, there is such a female writer:
Graduated from a Buddhist university, he was fascinated by occult and speculative literature during his university years;
More than 30 years after his debut, he has published dozens of works, mostly with the themes of supernaturality, fantasy and reasoning;
Usually unusually low-key, reluctant to accept face-to-face interviews.
She was married, her husband was like-minded with her, and she published many masterpieces of reasoning.
In addition, his husband is also a great wall athlete - a real mahjong player, the champion of the 30th "Mahjong Celebrity" in 1999.
Her name is Ono, and her husband, Ayatsuji, is a double bi in the contemporary Japanese pop literary scene.
1 Buddhist girl who is obsessed with the "other world"
Ono was born in 1960 in Oita Prefecture, Japan.
When she was young, she had a special relationship with Buddhism - after graduating from high school, she was admitted to Otani University in Kyoto.
It is a university founded by the Jodo Shinmune Temple in Japan.
The core of the teachings of the Pure Land True Sect is that by meditating on the recitation of the Dharma name of "Nam no Amitabha Buddha", the evil karma of past lifetimes can be eliminated; as long as the merit reaches a certain level, the Buddha can be led to the Pure Land at the end of his life.
In Japan, pure land is not only a kind of faith, but also carries a long history and culture.
In the ancient days of the samurai dictatorship, the monks and devotees of the Pure Land True Sect repeatedly tried to establish an independent kingdom away from war.
To this end, it was bloodily suppressed by one warlord boss, Oda Nobunaga, and later by another warlord boss, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who split his headquarters temple, Honganji Temple, into two and split it into Higashi Hongan-ji Temple and Nishi Hongan-ji Temple, which continues to this day.
Ono's alma mater, Otani University, is a higher education institution founded by Higashi Honganji Temple.
Later, many of Ono's works contained materials such as Buddhism, ghosts, and the netherworld.
Whether she became a devout Buddhist during college is unknown. For his private life, Ono has been reluctant to talk about it.
But from then on, she became obsessed with reasoning and supernatural fiction.
At Kyoto University, which is not far from Otani University, there is a young man named Naoyuki Uchida who is also very obsessed with speculative literature, especially the works of Shoji Shimada. At his side, there was also a group of like-minded friends who formed a literary society.
Ono became acquainted with Naoyuki Uchida and joined their Reasoning Literature Fan Society.
Soon after, she married Naoyuki Uchida.
During this period, Naoyuki Uchida created the "Ten Corners Museum Murder Trailer", and also met his idol Shoji Shimada and showed this work to Shimada.
Shoji Shimada was very fond of the work, recommended its publication, and gave Naoyuki Uchida a pen name, called Ayatsuji Yukito.
In addition to his love of mystery novels, Ayatsuji also loves rubbing hemp, and in 1999 won the "Mahjong Celebrity Competition".
In Japan, although mahjong has been popular for many years, many people's enthusiasm for mahjong is similar to that of Sichuanese, but it is rare to get a place in the national competition. Ayatsuji, on the other hand, has done the ultimate in this line.
Therefore, some critics have said that Ayatsuji is a talented mahjong athlete who was delayed in writing novels.
Ono did not play mahjong with her husband after marriage, and never revealed it to the public. She also began to write literature, focusing on supernatural and occult themes, but also containing some elements of reasoning.
Tokyo Anecdote is Ono's first novel. In short, it is set in Tokyo, haunted and strange.
All the blue-faced and fanged demons, as well as the "soul traffickers", all have the same black hand behind the scenes, the Duke of Eagle Division.
An ordinary journalist stumbled upon the clues of this shocking darkness, and he was determined to fight this evil world to the end with his own strength...
Tokyo Strange Story won the title of the 5th Japan Fantasy Novel Awards, and Ono entered the Japanese literary scene.
2. The "Lord" of the Twelve Kingdoms
In the 1990s, Ono wrote the novel series The Twelve Kingdoms, which is widely regarded as one of Japan's most outstanding fantasy novels at the turn of the world.
At the beginning of the story, it seems ordinary: a modern girl who accidentally travels into another world - the same as Kyoko Glacier's manga "From afar" and Qiao Linzhi's novel "Start Being a Demon King Today" a few years later.
But Ono's otherworld, which is not only beautiful, has many settings that are both nuanced and unconventional.
In this other world, there are 12 countries, adapted from the myths in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Its culture and political system are quite similar to those of ancient China, especially the Zhou Dynasty.
Each country has nine states, and the princes of each state are divided by the king. Both kings and high-ranking officials can play to the Heavenly Emperor to become gods, unless they are beheaded by the Winter Instrument, which is basically immortal.
But the throne is not hereditary, and is chosen by the divine beast unicorn of each country according to Providence.
The Heavenly Emperor in the underworld, as well as demons and half-beasts, are the real masters of various countries, but the major affairs of the country are left to human beings to take care of.
The unicorn is a benevolent beast, good nature and compassionate, very taboo against bloody slaughter, if you smell or see blood, you will be unwell, and when the situation is serious, you will lose consciousness.
If the monarch loses his way, the Qilin will become seriously ill, and unless the king rehabilitates, commits suicide, or asks the Emperor to abdicate, the Qilin will die of illness.
If the unicorn dies, the king will die within the following year.
Yoko Nakajima, who traveled through time and space, witnessed the joys and sorrows, ups and downs of the Twelve Kingdoms, and later became the Queen of Qingguo.
This work has been adapted into a popular anime of the same name, and the voice actor lineup is extremely luxurious:
The heroine, Yoko Nakajima, voiced by Aya Kukawa, is the voice actress of Aami Mizuno in Sailor Moon, and top voice actors such as Takehito Kono, Naomi Imitō, Rie Nagamiya, Akira Ishida, and Kenichi Suzumura appear together.
The Twelve Kingdoms created a culmination in Ono's writing career.
As a result, she has been called "lord" by many fans.
This is the title of the queen in the Book of the Twelve Kingdoms. And Ono can't help but be beautiful, and it is indeed well deserved.
3. Calendula Town Soul Song
"The calendula that ends / Nourishing loneliness / Longing for the rain and dew that cannot be poured / Never waking up to sleep / But refusing to let the flowers wither / Indomitable sucking the essence of the earth / Until the mourning soul song sounds / Melting in the dry wind..."
This is ono's other masterpiece, "Ghoul", which was adapted into the ending theme lyrics of the anime of the same name.
Its song title, Calendula Requiem (Calendula Requiem), is a good interpretation of the work.
In a deserted village, there are people who are eager to escape from the place and live in a big city in the future; there are also people who hate big cities and move here with their families.
One day, a strange disease suddenly appeared in the village: someone developed more and more severe symptoms of anemia and finally died.
And this strange disease continues to spread, and more and more people die.
There are also many of their families, relatives and friends, watching their beloved people weaken and die day by day.
"It's probably an infectious disease, and it's never been seen before."
The village doctors made this inference, but even if all methods were exhausted, the source of the disease could not be found. Abnormal viruses, germs, etc., can not be detected.
Until one day, the grave of a deceased who had been buried for many days was dug up, but the coffin was empty.
This is a supernatural horror that cannot be explained by science.
And in the temple of this village, the young monk with kind eyebrows and no chicken power is also a writer, and he has long known the ins and outs of all these tragedies.
In his temple, there was a young girl who never seemed to grow up, and her eyes were pitch black...
When the "scourge culprit" was exposed to broad daylight, an unprecedented bloody battle broke out in the whole village.
An elderly father who beheaded his own son with his own hands;
The beautiful teenager from the big city, at the last moment of curbing this "plague", personally detonated the bomb and slept under the Nine Springs forever;
And the girl who longed for the big city also became unrecognizable...
However, the root cause of all these calamities has been diverted elsewhere.
Perhaps in the near future, similar tragedies will be staged elsewhere...
This work is ono's most powerful masterpiece, combining horror, supernaturality and reasoning in one furnace, and also exploring the complexity of human nature.
However, ono, who has been popular for many years, can't help but be beautiful, daily life is very low-key, even if the work is awarded, she is not willing to personally accept the award, and the testimonial after the award is also after the reporter called, and she said a few words on the phone reluctantly.
She prefers to hide herself behind her works and show people with her works.
Ono's other works include "Spring Across seventeen years old", "The Fantasy Noble Prince of the Evil Spirit Series", and "The Island of the Black Temple".