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The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kido Okamoto, Ian MacDonald (Translator)Publish date:2006-12-31Pages:376
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Hawaii PressISBN-13:9780824831004ISBN-10:824831004UPC:9780824831004Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AsianSize:8.56 x 5.34 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.0318Product ID:SC7Y2X0R9J

"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 torimonochô. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective, Okamoto Kidô'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 Kidô'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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Hawaii PressISBN-13:9780824831004ISBN-10:824831004UPC:9780824831004Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AsianSize:8.56 x 5.34 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.0318Product ID:SC7Y2X0R9J
Ian MacDonald was awarded first prize in the Shizuoka International Translation Competition in 1997 and has translated the stories of Mishima Yukio, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Izumi Kyôka, among others.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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