Hisako Matsubara

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Hisako Matsubara (Japanese: 松原 久子; Kyoto; May 21, 1935) is a Japanese novelist who has written in German. The daughter of a Shinto priest, her best known work (in Spanish, at least) is Samurai, a story of frustated love which shines a light on the fragility of Japanese society prior to that country's civil war in 1868, through which it was opened to western powers, particularly the United States.

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