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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6344
EAN num: 9780824831004
ISBN number: 0824831004
Label: University of Hawaii Press
Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 376
Printing Date: 2007-01
Publishing house: University of Hawaii Press
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Studio: University of Hawaii Press
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'That year, quite a shocking incident occurred...' So reminisces old Hanshichi in a story from one of Japan's most beloved works of popular literature, Hanshichi torimonocho. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective, Okamoto Kido's best-known work inaugurated the historical detective genre in Japan, spawning stage, radio, movie, and television adaptations as well as countless imitations. This selection of fourteen stories, translated into English for the very first time, provides a fascinating glimpse of life in feudal Edo (later Tokyo) and rare insight into the development of the fledgling Japanese crime novel. Once viewed as an exclusively modern genre derivative of Western fiction, crime fiction and its place in the Japanese popular imagination were forever changed by Kido's 'unsung Sherlock Holmes.' These stories - still widely read yesterday - are crucial to our understanding of modern Japan and its aspirations toward a literature that steps outside the shadow of the West to stand on its own.
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After searching my library for novels not in the Anglo Saxon fashion, I came across this book, which I found to be a real page turner.
After an introduction/bio on Kido Okamoto, the author, you are given 14 cases or stories centered around Inspector Hanshichi which take place during the Late Tokugawa-Early Meiji Era. And you really feel like you've being transported back to that time as you read these stories. The cases are usually homicide with a hand full with paranormal themes in them.
Inspector Hanshichi remains me of Sherlock Holmes. Not surprisingly the Japanese author was a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle's creation. Nonetheless, fans of Sherlock Holmes or of crime novels will find this an interesting read. I now wonder if the rest of the Hanshichi stories will be translated into English (Okamoto wrote a total of 69 stories using the character).
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