'''Masao Atsukawa''' (b.1933-d.2009) was a Japanese close-up magician, student of [[Tenkai]], and well-known crime novelist. Masao Atsukawa used the pen name Tsumao Awasaka for his writing.<ref>http://booksfromjapan.jp/authors/authors/item/638-tsumao-awasaka</ref>
== Biography ==
He was awarded the [[Tenkai Prize]] in 1969, and won the Izumikyokasho literary prize for his mystery writing. He also received the Naoki Award, Japan's highest award for light literature.
== Bibliography ==
=== Books ===
* [[Creative Works in Magic]] (Japanese and English) (1970)
== Books ==
=== Contributions ===
=== Contributions ===
[[Five Times Five: Japan]]
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*[[Five Times Five: Japan]] ([[Richard Kaufman|Kaufman, 1992]])
** Four by Four
** Four from Nowhere
** Propelled Chinese/Silver
** Fabric Through Pasteboard
** The Knotted Letter
*[[New Magic of Japan]] ([[Richard Kaufman|Kaufman]] & [[Phil Goldstein|Goldstein]], 1988)
** Coin Fugue (introduced new coin sleight, '''The M.A. Coin Propulsion"
*[[The New York Magic Symposium - Collection 5]] ([[Stephen Minch|Minch]] & [[Phil Goldstein|Goldstein]], 1986)
** Fair Exchange
===Atsukawa in Genii===
*[[Genii 2000 May]]
**Warp 9
*[[Genii 1969 September]]
**Moving Hole
**Vanishing A Coin in A Folded Handkerchief
{{References}}
* The Magic Circular, Vol. 103, No. 1113, April 2009, Masao Atsukawa has died…, page 99
Masao Atsukawa (b.1933-d.2009) was a Japanese close-up magician, student of Tenkai, and well-known crime novelist. Masao Atsukawa used the pen name Tsumao Awasaka for his writing.[1]
He was awarded the Tenkai Prize in 1969, and won the Izumikyokasho literary prize for his mystery writing. He also received the Naoki Award, Japan's highest award for light literature.