The curious casebook of Inspector Hanshichi : detective stories of old Edo
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The curious casebook of Inspector Hanshichi : detective stories of old Edo
University of Hawaiʿi Press, c2007
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- : hardcover
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Hanshichi torimonochō
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"Published in Japanese by Kobunsha, Tokyo"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. xxxvi-xxxvii
Contents of Works
- The ghost of Ofumi
- The stone lantern
- The death of Kampei
- The room over the bathhouse
- The dancer's curse
- The mystery of the fire bell
- The daimyo's maidservant
- The Haunted Sash Pond
- Snow melting in spring
- Hiroshige and the river otter
- The Mansion of Morning Glories
- A cacophony of cats
- Benten's daughter
- The mountain party
Description and Table of Contents
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: hardcover ISBN 9780824830533
Description
"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 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 today - 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.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780824831004
Description
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 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 today - 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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