Shuhei Fujisawa (1927–1997) was a Japanese novelist from Yamagata Prefecture. After graduating from Yamagata Normal School, he became a junior high school teacher but contracted tuberculosis and spent about five years undergoing treatment in Tokyo. He later worked as a newspaper reporter while writing fiction, receiving the All Yomimono New Writers Award for "Kurai Umi" in 1971 and the Naoki Prize for "Ansatsu no Nenrin" in 1973. He wrote numerous historical novels centered on lower-ranking samurai, townspeople, and others struggling to make their way through life in the Edo period. His major novel "Semishigure" is set in the fictional Unasaka domain and follows Bunshiro Maki, a young samurai whose father is condemned and forced to take his own life after becoming entangled in a political struggle within the domain. Enduring poverty and the loss of his family status while continuing his sword training, Bunshiro eventually finds himself drawn back into the conflict that destroyed his father, all while carrying an unspoken love for his childhood friend Fuku.
