Shipping is scheduled via Yu-Packet Post. He is also known as the person who discovered Kiyoshi Yamashita and Yayoi Kusama. Ryuzaburo Shikiba Born July 2, 1898, in Gosen-machi, Nakakanbara-gun, Niigata Prefecture (present-day Gosen City). Graduated from Niigata Medical College (now Niigata University School of Medicine). Awarded a Doctor of Medicine (Niigata Medical University) in 1929 [2]. After serving as the director of Shizuoka Brain Hospital, he established Shikiba Hospital, a mental hospital, in Kofudai, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture in 1936 [1]. Person Edit From an early age, he was a devoted reader of magazines such as "Hototogisu" and admired the literary world, befriending writers of the "Shirakaba school," people involved in the Mingei movement such as Soetsu Yanagi, and Bernard Leach. He was interested in the relationship between literary and artistic creative activities and people's mental problems. As a psychiatrist, he was interested in Van Gogh and wrote many books on the subject. He also left behind "Nisho-tei Kitan," a record of the strange architecture "Nisho-tei" built in Fukagawa, Tokyo, by Kinzo Watanabe, which is one of his achievements. He paid attention to the talent of Kiyoshi Yamashita, known as "Hadaka no Taisho" (The Naked General), supported his activities both materially and spiritually, and widely introduced him to the world, which had a great influence on special needs education. Yukio Mishima also read the following biography by Shikiba and, in a letter to Shikiba, stated that his own work "Confessions of a Mask" was "a faithful account of facts derived from his own experiences," except for modifications to the model and the fusion of two characters into one, and confessed that he was suffering from sexual impotence [4]. Also, "Madame de Sade" and "Night Sunflower" both borrowed their titles from Shikiba's works [1]. In addition, after World War II, when the Japan Handball Association was re-established in 1946, he became the association's chairman (the 3rd in total) and served as chairman for 19 years over 9 terms, working hard to develop the sport [5][6].