However, after the birth of his second daughter in 1917, he was reconciled with his father, and related the story in his novel "Wakai" ("Reconciliation", 1917). This was followed by his major work, "An'ya Koro" ("A Dark Night's Passing", 1921–1937), which was serialized in the socialist magazine "Kaizō." Shiga's terse style influenced many later writers, and was praised by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Agawa Hiroyuki. However, other contemporaries, notably Dazai Osamu, were strongly critical of this "sincere" style. During his lifetime Shiga moved house an estimated 28 times in various locations around Japan. He wrote stories connected with most of the places he lived in, including "Kinosaki ni te" ("At Kinosaki") and "Sasaki no baai" ("In the case of Sasaki"). One of his longer stays was in Nara, where he lived in a house facing Nara Park from 1925–1938. Due to frequent visitors from the literary world, the house was dubbed the "Takabatake Salon" from the name of its neighborhood. The house has been preserved, and is open to the public as a memorial museum. After Nara, Shiga moved to Kamakura, and from there he moved to the hot spring resort town of Atami, Shizuoka from the war years onwards. Frequent visitors to his house included the writer Hirotsu Kazuo and the film director Yasujirō Ozu. Shiga was awarded the Order of Culture by the Japanese government in 1949. Shiga suffered the fate of many authors who are successful in their early years, combined with the fatal weakness of authors specializing in the autobiographical novel – after a while there is little or nothing left to write about. During the last 35 years of his life he occasionally appeared as a guest writer in various literary journals, where he reminisced about his early association with various "Shirakaba" school writers, or his former interest in Christianity, but he produced very little new work. He died of pneumonia, after a long illness, at the age of 88. His grave is at the Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo.