Taruho Inagaki

Taruho Inagaki (稲垣足穂, Inagaki Taruho December 26, 1900 - October 25, 1977) was a Japanese writer.

Biography
Inagaki was born in Osaka, moved to Akashi in Hyōgo Prefecture while he was in elementary school, and spent much of his childhood in Kōbe. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin Junior High School. In 1968 he won the first annual Japan Literature Grand Prize for "The Aesthetics of Shōnen'ai" (「少年愛の美学」), an essay on "aesthetic eroticism", where he divides stories into A, V, P and K varieties.

Inagaki's works often dealt with themes including flight, astronomical objects, and shōnen'ai.