Writer Yamasaki Toyoko who was known for her novels adapted into dramas and movies such as "Shiroi Kyoto", "Daichi no Ko", "Shizumanu Taiyo", passed away on 29 September at the age of 88 years old due to heart failure. Yamasaki began her writing career in 1957 with the novel "Noren" and won the Naoki Award the following year with the novel "Hana Noren" which described the tough Osaka woman modeled after Yoshimoto Kogyo's founder Yoshimoto Sei. Since then, she had released many well-known and bestselling novels, many of which had been made into dramas and movies such as "Nyokei Kazoku", "Shiroi Kyoto", "Karei Naru Ichizoku", "Fumou Chitai" and "Shizumanu Taiyo". Although she suffered from numb legs and fingers since 2001, Yamasaki still managed to write and release the novel "Unmei no Hito" in 2009 and had written 20 chapters of her final work "Yakusoku no Umi" since August this year which is now serialised in "Shuukan Shincho".
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