いのちのバトンタッチ (伝道フ゛ックス59)

by Shinmon Aoki

Paperback Shinsho

About the author

Shinmon Aoki (Japanese: 青木 新門) ) is a Japanese writer and poet. He is best known for his memoirs Coffinman:The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician, published in 1993. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were made into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures.