This Japanese crime novel recreates the 1578 Itami Castle siege
[ad_1] My acquaintance with Japanese historical (or period) crime/detective fiction is limited to only a handful of works: Kidō Okamoto’s Hanshichi torimonochō (translated as The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi: Detective Stories of Old Edo, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007) and a couple of manga and anime series such as Shōtarō Ishinomori’s Sabu to Ichi … Read more