The Snake That Bowed
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Fiction. Edward Seidensticker, translator of many works of twentieth-century Japanese literature and author of several books on Japan, brings to life three stories from Okamoto Kido's A Record of Hanschichi's Arrest. The opening story is set in 1861, just before the shogunate's overthrow and the rise of Tokyo where a severed alien head is found. Through Hanschichi, a fictional okappiki (police officer) detective work, glimpses of old Edo are marvelously...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1933606037
ISBN13:9781933606033
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Saru
Length:143 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
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