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In February 2018, Imamura quit his job at the Moriyama Buried Cultural Properties Center to pursue writing full time.<ref name=mainichi/> His work ”Warabe no Kami” was nominated for the 160th [[Naoki Prize]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:第160回「芥川賞」上田岳弘氏『ニムロッド』と町屋良平氏『1R1分34秒』がW受賞|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2127610/full/|website=[[Oricon]]|date=January 16, 2019|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja}}</ref> He was nominated for the 163rd Naoki Prize in 2020 for ”Jinkan”.<ref name=mainichi/> He won the 166th Naoki Prize in 2022 for ”Saiō no Tate”.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:第166回「直木賞」”時代もの”W受賞 『氷菓』原作者・米澤穂信氏『黒牢城』 今村翔吾氏『塞王の楯』|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2221602/full/|website=[[Oricon]]|date=January 19, 2022|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja}}</ref> Later that year, he started [[screenwriting]] with ”{{ill|Saturday wa Nanisuru!?|ja|土曜はナニする!?}}”, a Japanese television drama.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:直木賞作家・今村翔吾氏が脚本家デビュー「ノリで言ったら本当に依頼が来ました」|url=https://www.nikkansports.com/m/entertainment/news/202204090000413_m.html?mode=all|website=[[Nikkan Sports]]|date=April 9, 2022|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja}}</ref> He began appearing on the radio show ”{{ill|Imamura Shōgo × Yamazaki Reina no Itotteseshete|ja|今村翔吾×山崎怜奈の言って聞かせて}}” in September 2022 with former [[Nogizaka46]] member {{ill|Rena Yamazaki|ja|山崎怜奈}}.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000244.000040629.html|script-title=ja:直木賞作家 今村翔吾と山崎怜奈によるラジオ番組がスタート！|publisher=ABC Radio|date=September 20, 2022|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja|via=PR Times}}</ref> In 2023, Imamura founded Hon Mirai, an organization to promote young writers.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:作家・今村翔吾さん 「本の未来を守る」団体設立…大津市でキックオフイベント|url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/kansai/news/20230319-OYO1T50007/|website=[[Yomiuri Shimbun]]|date=March 20, 2023|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja}}</ref>

In February 2018, Imamura quit his job at the Moriyama Buried Cultural Properties Center to pursue writing full time.<ref name=mainichi/> His work ”Warabe no Kami” was nominated for the 160th [[Naoki Prize]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:第160回「芥川賞」上田岳弘氏『ニムロッド』と町屋良平氏『1R1分34秒』がW受賞|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2127610/full/|website=[[Oricon]]|date=January 16, 2019|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja}}</ref> He was nominated for the 163rd Naoki Prize in 2020 for ”Jinkan”.<ref name=mainichi/> He won the 166th Naoki Prize in 2022 for ”Saiō no Tate”.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:第166回「直木賞」”時代もの”W受賞 『氷菓』原作者・米澤穂信氏『黒牢城』 今村翔吾氏『塞王の楯』|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2221602/full/|website=[[Oricon]]|date=January 19, 2022|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja}}</ref> Later that year, he started [[screenwriting]] with ”{{ill|Saturday wa Nanisuru!?|ja|土曜はナニする!?}}”, a Japanese television drama.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:直木賞作家・今村翔吾氏が脚本家デビュー「ノリで言ったら本当に依頼が来ました」|url=https://www.nikkansports.com/m/entertainment/news/202204090000413_m.html?mode=all|website=[[Nikkan Sports]]|date=April 9, 2022|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja}}</ref> He began appearing on the radio show ”{{ill|Imamura Shōgo × Yamazaki Reina no Itotteseshete|ja|今村翔吾×山崎怜奈の言って聞かせて}}” in September 2022 with former [[Nogizaka46]] member {{ill|Rena Yamazaki|ja|山崎怜奈}}.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000244.000040629.html|script-title=ja:直木賞作家 今村翔吾と山崎怜奈によるラジオ番組がスタート！|publisher=ABC Radio|date=September 20, 2022|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja|via=PR Times}}</ref> In 2023, Imamura founded Hon Mirai, an organization to promote young writers.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:作家・今村翔吾さん 「本の未来を守る」団体設立…大津市でキックオフイベント|url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/local/kansai/news/20230319-OYO1T50007/|website=[[Yomiuri Shimbun]]|date=March 20, 2023|access-date=February 29, 2024|language=ja}}</ref>

In 2022, his novel ”Ikusagami (イクサガミ)” English title ”[[Last Samurai Standing]]” illustrated by {{ill|Katsumi Tatsuzawa|ja|立沢克美}} was serialized in [[Kodansha]]’s [[Seinen manga|{{Transliteration|ja|seinen}} manga]] magazine ”[[Morning (magazine)|Morning]]” in December 2022, with its chapters collected in four {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes as of May 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zusyu.co.jp/works/index.php?cat_id=20 |title=作品一覧 |trans-title=List of works |author= |work=Shogo Imamura |publisher=Zusyu |access-date=August 17, 2025 |language=ja}}</ref>

In 2022, his novel ”[[Last Samurai Standing]]” illustrated by {{ill|Katsumi Tatsuzawa|ja|立沢克美}} was serialized in [[Kodansha]]’s [[Seinen manga|{{Transliteration|ja|seinen}} manga]] magazine ”[[Morning (magazine)|Morning]]” in December 2022, with its chapters collected in four {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes as of May 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zusyu.co.jp/works/index.php?cat_id=20 |title=作品一覧 |trans-title=List of works |author= |work=Shogo Imamura |publisher=Zusyu |access-date=August 17, 2025 |language=ja}}</ref>

In 2025, it was made into a live-action TV series [[Last Samurai Standing (TV series)|of the same name]].<ref name=”prod:lss”>{{Cite news|url=https://about.netflix.com/en/news/last-samurai-standing-title-announcement |title=Netflix Announces Production of ‘Last Samurai Standing’: An Epic Battle Royale for Survival in Historic Japan|date=April 18, 2024 |access-date= August 16, 2025 |publisher=Netflix Newsroom}}</ref> The series will be released in November 2025 on [[Netflix]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://about.netflix.com/en/news/last-samurai-standing-unveils-14-new-cast-members-ahead-of-november-debut |title=‘Last Samurai Standing’ Unveils 14 New Cast Members Ahead of November Debut Japan|date=February 4, 2025 |access-date= August 16, 2025 |publisher=Netflix Newsroom}}</ref>

==Personal life==

==Personal life==

Latest revision as of 04:36, 15 December 2025

Japanese writer (born 1984)

Shogo Imamura (Japanese: 今村翔吾, Hepburn: Imamura Shōgo; born June 18, 1984) is a Japanese writer. He is best known for writing historical fiction novels. He won the 166th Naoki Prize in 2022.

Imamura was born in Kamo, Kyoto (now Kizugawa) on June 18, 1984.[1][2] His father, Katsuhiko Imamura (ja), is a former elementary school teacher.[3] He graduated from Nara Women’s University Secondary School (ja) and Kansai University‘s Faculty of Letters.[4][5] Upon graduation, he worked as a dance instructor and an archeologist at the Moriyama Buried Cultural Properties Center.[3][6]

While in fifth grade, Imamura read Sanada Taiheiki by Shōtarō Ikenami, which lead him to consider pursuing a career as a writer.[3] After going through health issues in 2013 and 2014, he decided to start writing in his spare time.[3][7] In 2016, Imamura won the Izu Literary Award (ja) Grand Prize for Kire, Hikogoro.[6] Later that year, Imamura won the Kyushu Saga Popular Literature Award (ja) for Kitsune no Shiro. Kenzo Kitakata, who was on the selection committee for the award, recommended to an editor at Shodensha to publish a work by Imamura. Shodensha published Hikuidori: Ushūboro Tobigumi in 2017, which was Imamura’s first published work.[8]

In February 2018, Imamura quit his job at the Moriyama Buried Cultural Properties Center to pursue writing full time.[6] His work Warabe no Kami was nominated for the 160th Naoki Prize in 2019.[9] He was nominated for the 163rd Naoki Prize in 2020 for Jinkan.[6] He won the 166th Naoki Prize in 2022 for Saiō no Tate.[10] Later that year, he started screenwriting with Saturday wa Nanisuru!? (ja), a Japanese television drama.[11] He began appearing on the radio show Imamura Shōgo × Yamazaki Reina no Itotteseshete (ja) in September 2022 with former Nogizaka46 member Rena Yamazaki (ja).[12] In 2023, Imamura founded Hon Mirai, an organization to promote young writers.[13]

In 2022, his novel Last Samurai Standing was adapted into a manga illustrated by Katsumi Tatsuzawa (ja). It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Morning beginning in December 2022, with its chapters collected in four tankōbon volumes as of May 2024.[14] In 2025, it was made into a live-action TV series of the same name.[15] The series was released in November 2025 on Netflix.[16]

Imamura resides in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan.[6]

In 2021, Imamura purchased Kinoshita Book Center, a struggling bookstore in Minoh, Osaka. After undergoing renovations, it was reopened on November 1, 2021.[3] Imamura opened Saga no Shoten, a bookstore in the Saga Station, in December 2023.[17]

Imamura’s works generally fall into the historical fiction genre.[3][6] Imamura described his style of writing as “writing without a plot” and only a desired ending for the story in mind.[18] Imamura has cited the works of Shōtarō Ikenami and Ryōtarō Shiba as influences on his work.[3]

Kuramashi ya Kagyō series

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  • Kuramashi ya Kagyō (くらまし屋稼業), Kadokawa Haruki Office, 2018, ISBN 9784758441803
  • Haru wa Made ka (春はまだか), Kadokawa Haruki Office, 2018, ISBN 9784758441896
  • Natsu no Modori-sen (夏の戻り船), Kadokawa Haruki Office, 2018, ISBN 9784758442183
  • Aki Kure no Go Ri (秋暮の五人), Kadokawa Haruki Office, 2019, ISBN 9784758442473
  • Fuyu Hare no Hanayome (冬晴れの花嫁), Kadokawa Haruki Office, 2019, ISBN 9784758442800
  • Hanauta no Koro e (花唄の頃へ), Kadokawa Haruki Office, 2020, ISBN 9784758443197
  • Tatsutori no Mai (立つ鳥の舞), Kadokawa Haruki Office, 2021, ISBN 9784758443654
  • Kazemachi no Shi Suguru (風待ちの四傑), Kadokawa Haruki Office, 2022, ISBN 9784758444804
  1. ^ Takii, Asayo (July 25, 2020). 作家の読書道　第219回：今村翔吾さん. Webdoku (in Japanese). Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  2. ^ 直木賞作家・今村翔吾氏の初の密着映像　１８日のＢＳ朝日で公開. Sankei Sports (in Japanese). June 17, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g 直木賞候補の歴史小説家・今村翔吾さんが挑戦する書店経営…自身の原点でもある『予期せぬ本との出会い』を守る. MBS News (in Japanese). January 10, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  4. ^ 啓林堂書店奈良店で今村翔吾さんサイン本を販売　女大付中高出身の作家、直木賞受賞記念で. Nara Shimbun (in Japanese). January 21, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  5. ^ 【著者インタビュー】今村翔吾『幸村を討て』／直木賞受賞第一作！　数々の謎に大胆に迫る、異色の真田物. Shosetsu Maru (in Japanese). May 3, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f 今村さん直木賞逃す　「チャンスすぐ来る」元同僚らがエール　／滋賀. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). July 16, 2020. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  7. ^ 今村「2013年に右アキレス腱を断裂、14年に両目が網膜剥離になり右目を一時失明し…」【ユニコーン・川西幸一と直木賞作家・今村翔吾の対談バトル再び】(4). Pinzuba (in Japanese). March 21, 2023. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  8. ^ Masuko, Shin’ichi (March 21, 2023). 北方謙三×今村翔吾　特別対談「物語の命運を背負って――」 (in Japanese). Shueisha Bungei. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  9. ^ 第160回「芥川賞」上田岳弘氏『ニムロッド』と町屋良平氏『1R1分34秒』がW受賞. Oricon (in Japanese). January 16, 2019. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  10. ^ 第166回「直木賞」”時代もの”W受賞 『氷菓』原作者・米澤穂信氏『黒牢城』 今村翔吾氏『塞王の楯』. Oricon (in Japanese). January 19, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  11. ^ 直木賞作家・今村翔吾氏が脚本家デビュー「ノリで言ったら本当に依頼が来ました」. Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). April 9, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  12. ^ 直木賞作家 今村翔吾と山崎怜奈によるラジオ番組がスタート！ (Press release) (in Japanese). ABC Radio. September 20, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024 – via PR Times.
  13. ^ 作家・今村翔吾さん 「本の未来を守る」団体設立…大津市でキックオフイベント. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). March 20, 2023. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  14. ^ “作品一覧” [List of works]. Shogo Imamura (in Japanese). Zusyu. Retrieved August 17, 2025.
  15. ^ “Netflix Announces Production of ‘Last Samurai Standing’: An Epic Battle Royale for Survival in Historic Japan”. Netflix Newsroom. April 18, 2024. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
  16. ^ “‘Last Samurai Standing’ Unveils 14 New Cast Members Ahead of November Debut Japan”. Netflix Newsroom. February 4, 2025. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
  17. ^ “Acclaimed Writer Shogo Imamura Opens Bookstore in Saga, Repaying Prefecture that Got Him Started”. The Japan News. December 7, 2023. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  18. ^ 直木賞作家・今村翔吾「〈幸村〉という名前の絶対的なパワーはなんだろう」「信之の気持ち、わかるわ～」僕の実家と真田家を重ねて描いた. Fujinkoron (in Japanese). Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  19. ^ “メカバレ”厳禁！陰キャ男子とセクサロイドのコメディ新連載「かくして！ マキナさん!!」. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 25, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  20. ^ Mateo, Alex (July 15, 2021). “Bloody Monday’s Kōji Megumi’s Kangibanka Manga Ends”. Anime News Network. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  21. ^ 金さえ払えばどこへでも、命を懸けて依頼人を逃がす「くらまし屋稼業」マンガ版1巻. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. May 2, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  22. ^ デスゲーム×明治時代、今村翔吾の歴史大作「イクサガミ」コミカライズがモーニングで. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. December 8, 2022. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  23. ^ 「火喰鳥 羽州ぼろ鳶組」マンガ化＆TVアニメ化決定　ティザーPV公開. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 26, 2025. Retrieved February 26, 2025.

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