This author of Wonderful Fool and While I Whistle may be better known for a novel about a priest named Father Velasco, who is escorted by Rokuemon Hasekura from Mexico to Rome.
In one of this man's short stories, Mrs. Horiguchi refuses further treatment at a hospital to benefit her Kabuki actor husband, while in another, Inouye fetches a bronze figurine to distract the narrator from a pornographic pictures seller. This author of "Retreating Figures" and "The Day Before" also wrote "Despicable Bastard", and a novel in which Takamoria and Tomoe are the penpals of Gaston Bonaparte, who arrives in Japan on a third rate steamship. This author of Wonderful Fool and While I Whistle may be better known for a novel about a priest named Father Velasco, who is escorted by Rokuemon Hasekura from Mexico to Rome. This author's best known novel is about a Portugese missionary who's expelled from Japan during the Edo period. For ten points, identify this author of The Samurai and Silence.
In one of this man's short stories, Mrs. Horiguchi refuses further treatment at a hospital to benefit her Kabuki actor husband, while in another, Inouye fetches a bronze figurine to distract the narrator from a pornographic pictures seller.
{Endo} Shusaku (also accept “Paul {Endo}”)