Sawako ariyoshi biography of abraham

    In his Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature, J. Thomas Rimer describes Ariyoshi Sawako (1931-1984) as "one of the finest of post-war Japanese writers."   This writer, though her life was relatively short, was extremely productive, and it is unfortunate that of the over 100 short stories, novels, plays, musicals, and movie scripts which she was able to write or produce, only a handful are available in English. 
   Ariyoshi's works were first introduced to the English reading public through the translations of short pieces in the Japan Quarterly magazine.

At present, she is best known for The Doctor's Wife (1966, trans. 1978), a novel depicting the rivalry between wife and mother-in-law in the household of Dr. Hanaoka Seishu who developed the world's first general anesthetic, Twilight Years (1972, trans.

1984) which describes how the heroine took care of her father-in-law as he slowly became senile, and most rec