title: Yumie Hiraiwa
text: # Yumie Hiraiwa
  
  Yumie Hiraiwa (平岩 弓枝, Hiraiwa Yumie, 15 March 1932 – 9 June 2023) was a Japanese Naoki Award-winning author.
  
  ## Life
  
  The daughter of the chief priest of Yoyogi Hachiman shrine, Hiraiwa was born in Tokyo in 1932. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women's University, the aspiring author studied under novelist Togawa Yukio and became a member of Shinyo-kai, an organization to promote literature established in memory of novelist Hasegawa Shin. In 1959, her work Taganeshi (A Sword Name-Engraver) won the Naoki Award.
  
  Hiraiwa died from pneumonia on 9 June 2023, at the age of 91.
  
  ## Works
  
  Hiraiwa's representative works include the historical detective-story series Onyado Kawasemi (The Kawasemi Inn). Her works cover a wide range of genres, including historical and contemporary novels, mysteries, novels on adolescence and scripts for plays and TV dramas. In 1987, she became a member of the selection committee for the Naoki Award.
  
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