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Showing posts with label japanese literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label japanese literature. Show all posts
Saturday, July 19, 2025

A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata

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In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Review: The Meji Guillotine Murders by Futaro Yamada

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Synopsis: Japan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion.A classic Japanese mystery – a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders...

Review: The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

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Synopsis: A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in the Chizurui mansion in this pr...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Review: The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis: Locked room mysteries are hot again, and this classic from the golden age of crime presents a mind-bending Japanese mystery from t...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Review: The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis:   The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after  The Honjin Murders  and  The Inugami Curse  — fiendish cl...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Yukio Mishima: The strange tale of Japan’s infamous novelist

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From BBC Culture : The theatrical life and death 50 years ago of one of Japan’s most celebrated and controversial authors created an endurin...
Monday, September 7, 2020

Review: The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis: In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Review: The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis: In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichi...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

The Evolution of “The Tale of Genji”

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In the 1,300-year history of Japanese literature, The Tale of Genji stands out as a seminal, quintessential work, and it has become a part...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Samurai Text Tells Secrets of Sword-Fighters' 'Supernatural Powers'

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From  Live Science :  A newly translated samurai text called " Twelve Rules of the Sword " reveals the secrets of a sword-figh...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Inside a 17th-Century 'Barbarian' Cookbook From Japan

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From  Gastro Obscura : These day, treats including tempura, konpeitō hard candy, and fluffy castella cake are available in restaurants, ...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library | University of Cambridge

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A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children’s adaptation of one o...