Tomosuke Noda, a writer and canoeist known for his essays traveling on rivers in Japan and overseas, has passed away.
He was 84 years old.
Mr. Noda is from Kumamoto prefecture and canoeed down many rivers in Japan and abroad, and based on his experience, he won the Nonfiction New Artist Award for "Travel in the Rivers of Japan" in 1982.
After that, he traveled to various places and wrote many travel essays, and became a model of the person who appears in "Takemonogatari", which was partly adopted in Japanese textbooks in the private novel of the writer Makoto Shiina who had an exchange. He was known as a pioneer of the outdoors, as he became a TV commercial and was shown traveling with his dog in a canoe.
While Mr. Noda is searching for a river that has not been developed and has a lot of nature, she moved to Hiwasa Town, Tokushima Prefecture, now Minami Town, and tells children the fun of playing in the river and the importance of nature. I continued my activities as the principal of "School".
Mr. Noda's office published a comment on the homepage of an outdoor information magazine that Mr. Noda has serialized essays for about 40 years.
According to it, Mr. Noda died on March 27 at the age of 84, and his funeral was held only by his close relatives due to the infection situation of the new corona.