was a Japanese novelist. He attended the University of Tokyo, and upon graduation joined the staff of the literary magazine Shin-Shicho (新思潮: "New Thought") in 1950. The next year, Miura published his first book. He then married fellow Third Generation writer Ayako Sono in 1953, with whom he wrote many books about Catholicism and religion. Miura began teaching at Nihon University in 1967, the same year he was awarded the Shinchosha Prize. From 1985 to 1986, he was commissioner of the Cultural Affairs Agency. In 1999, the Japanese government designated Miura a Person of Cultural Merit. In 2004, Miura was appointed to lead the Japan Art Academy. He stepped down in 2014, and died at a hospital in Tokyo due to pneumonia on 3 February 2017, aged 91. References 1926 births 2017 deaths Members of the Japan Art Academy Writers from Tokyo Academic staff of Nihon University University of Tokyo alumni Deaths from pneumonia in Japan Japanese Roman Catholics 20th-century Japanese novelists 20th-century Japanese male writers Writers from Kōchi Prefecture Presidents of the Japan Writers’ Association