Mitsugu Saotome, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mitsugu Saotome

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1926

Place of Birth: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Date of Death: 23-Dec-2008

Profession: novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

For the aikido teacher, see Mitsugi SaotomeMitsugu Saotome (????, Saotome Mitsugu, January 1, 1926 – December 23, 2008) was the pen-name of Kanegae Hideyoshi, a Japanese writer of historical fiction in Showa and Heisei period Japan.
He won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature and the Naoki Prize.