Aoki Shinmon

Shinmon Aoki was a Japanese writer and poet. He was 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 adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.

Country

Japan

Category

Writers

Type

Writer / Author

Status

deceased

Dates

Lived 1937 to 2022 · aged 85

Written about in

9 languages