Shishi Bunroku

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Bunroku Shishi (a pen name for Toyoo Iwata; b. July 1, 1893, Yokohama; d. Dec. 13, 1969) was a Japanese writer and director of the Bungakuza Theater in Tokyo.

In 1922 he traveled to France to study modern French theater, and worked in the atelier of Jacques Copeau.

[edit] Selected books

Ecchan, (Little Etsuko, 1936)

Ten'ya Wan'ya (Chaos, 1949)

Jiyu Gakko, (1950) Published in English in 2006 as School of Freedom by Lynne E. Riggs, ISBN 1-929280-40-8.

Yassa Mossa, (Helter-Skelter, 1952)

Musume to watashi, (My Daughter And I, 1956, was made into both a TV-series and a movie)

Hakoneyama, (Mount Hakone, 1962)