(Prefix) Within; e.g.; SYN. ento.

(1923-) Japanese novelist. A convert to Catholic Christianity, he studied modern French religious writing in Lyons 1950. This encouraged his fictional explorations of cultural conflict and moral and spiritual perplexity in sympathetically treated unheroic lives, disclosing a “mudswamp” of moral inertia in contemporary Japanese life. Among his best-known works, much-translated, are the historical novel Chinmoky/Silence 1967 and Kuchibue o fuku toki/When I Whistle 1979.