 His autobiographic "Gan no tera" (Temple of the Geese) won the Naoki Prize in 1961, and was adapted for film by Kawashima Yūzō (1962).He followed this in 1962 with "Kiga kaikyô" (Starvation Straits, 1962) which was made into a film under the same name by Tomu Uchida ("A Fugitive from the Past", 1965), and "Kiri to kage" (Fog and Shadows, 1963), then novels dealing with women's concerns, including "Gobanchô Yûgiri-rô" (The Pavilion of the Evening Mist at Gobanchô, 1963) and "Echizen takeningyô" (The Bamboo Dolls of Echizen, 1964).He won the 1975 Tanizaki Prize for "Ikkyū" (一休), a biography of an eccentric Zen-master Ikkyū.