Yoshikawa Eiji: Japan's Greatest Historic Fiction Writer

The most extraordinary man of Post-Meiji Japan

Born in 1892, around the same time that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Occidental world, to an English couple, Yoshikawa Eiji was a man who defied all expectations and surpassed them all. A remarkable figure with a complex history all to himself, he is a remarkable writer with a knack for writing grand epics, a style that is unequalled in modern …