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Saga, Junʼichi, 1941-

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Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingSaga, Junʼichi, 1941-
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Variant(s)佐賀純一, 1941-
Škarica, Ivo, 1941-
Birth date1941
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Found inHis Asahi no kiji ... 1978: t.p. (Saga Junʼichi) jkt. (r; b. Shōwa 16)
BNF in VIAF, Feb. 11, 2022 (Saga, Junʼichi (1941-....) ; Japan ; Also written in English. - Doctor of medicine. - Author of works of an ethnological nature)
Wikipedia, Feb. 11, 2022 (Junichi Saga (佐賀 純一, Saga Jun'ichi, born 1941) is a Japanese countryside physician and writer whose work records countryside experiences of numerous individuals (typically, his patients). Saga (also known as Ivo Škarica) has written various books. Two, consisting of the recollections of the ordinary lives of people in the early twentieth century in the town of Tsuchiura in Ibaraki Prefecture, were translated into English as "Memories of Silk and Straw" and "Memories of Wind and Waves". He also wrote the 1989 Confessions of a Yakuza. The 1989 book was called "colorful, unorthodox" by the International Herald Tribune, "a witness to the past" by Le Monde, and "vivid and accurate" by the Los Angeles Times. Confessions of a Yakuza also briefly caused media coverage in 2003 when about a dozen passages were repurposed as lyrics by Bob Dylan for his album Love and Theft.)
Associated languagejpn eng