Background
Fukazawa was born in Isawa, Yamanashi, Japan.
深沢 七郎
Fukazawa was born in Isawa, Yamanashi, Japan.
In 1960, Chūōkōron published his satire Furyū mutan (風流夢譚,“The Story of a Dream of Courtly Elegance"). In it the narrator dreams that leftists take over the Imperial Palace and behead Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko before an enthusiastic crowd. This story provoked fury in the Imperial Household Agency and among Japanese ultra-nationalists.
On February 1, 1961, Kazutaka Komori, a seventeen-year-old rightist, broke into the home of Chūōkōron"s president, Shimanaka Hoji, killed a maid with a sword, and severely wounded Shimanaka"s wife in response to the story.
Fukazawa went into hiding and was little seen in public afterwards. The aftermath of the incident meant that criticism of the Imperial Family, and discussion of the role or existence of the Emperor became taboo.
1956 Chūōkōron Prize for The Ballad of Narayama (Narayamabushi ko) Sobo no mukashigatari (Nippon Columbia 1973).