Shumon Miura

{{Short description|Japanese novelist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Shumon Miura

|native_name = {{nobold|三浦朱門}}

|image = Miura Shumon and Sono Ayako.JPG

|caption = Miura with Ayako Sono, his wife in 1955

|nationality = Japanese

|office = Head of the Japan Art Academy

|term_start = 2004

|term_end = 2014

|predecessor = Tadashi Inumaru

|successor = Kuroi Senji

|office1 = Commissioner for Cultural Affairs

|term_start1 = 1 April 1985

|term_end1 = 1 September 1986

|predecessor1 = Isao Suzuki

|successor1 = Hitoshi Ōsaki

|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|1|12|df=y}}

|birth_place = Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Empire of Japan

|death_date = {{death date and age|2017|2|3|1926|1|12|df=y}}

|death_place = Tokyo, Japan

|spouse = {{marriage|Ayako Sono|1953|2017}}

|children =

|alma_mater = University of Tokyo

|signature =

}}

{{Nihongo|Shumon Miura|三浦 朱門|Miura Shumon|12 January 1926 – 3 February 2017}} was a Japanese novelist.

He attended the University of Tokyo, and upon graduation joined the staff of the literary magazine Shin-Shicho (新思潮: "New Thought") in 1950. The next year, Miura published his first book.{{cite news|title=Obituary / Shumon Miura / Author|url=http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003503221|access-date=5 February 2017|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|date=5 February 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206104414/http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003503221|archive-date=6 February 2017}} He then married fellow Third Generation writer Ayako Sono in 1953, with whom he wrote many books about Catholicism and religion. Miura began teaching at Nihon University in 1967, the same year he was awarded the Shinchosha Prize. From 1985 to 1986, he was commissioner of the Cultural Affairs Agency. In 1999, the Japanese government designated Miura a Person of Cultural Merit.{{cite news|title=Muere Shumon Miura, novelista japonés de la "tercera generación"|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/nota/muereshumonmiuranovelistajaponesdelatercerageneracion-2288094/|access-date=6 February 2017|work=El Nuevo Dia|date=5 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205063738/http://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/nota/muereshumonmiuranovelistajaponesdelatercerageneracion-2288094/|archive-date=5 February 2017|language=es|via=El Universal}} [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/letras/2017/02/5/muere-el-novelista-japones-shumon-miura Alt URL] In 2004, Miura was appointed to lead the Japan Art Academy. He stepped down in 2014, and died at a hospital in Tokyo due to pneumonia on 3 February 2017, aged 91.{{cite news|title='Third Generation' novelist Shumon Miura dies at 91|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/05/national/third-generation-novelist-shumon-miura-dies-91/|access-date=5 February 2017|work=Japan Times|date=5 February 2017|via=The Manichi|archive-date=5 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205071623/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/05/national/third-generation-novelist-shumon-miura-dies-91/}} [http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170205/p2g/00m/0et/097000c Alt URL]