Kenji Mizoguchi’s Sisters of the Gion (祇園の姉妹, 1936) follows two sisters working as geisha in Kyoto’s Gion pleasure district...
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Another book on gaijin life in Japan I read a few years ago. This one by John Nathan, who translated Yukio Mishima's work in the 1960s.
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Revisiting some of the books on Japan I read a few years ago. Ian Buruma’s Tokyo Romance, and a lot of his other work, has stayed with me.
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Mieko Kawakami’s Sisters in Yellow captures 1990s Tokyo from the perspective of a young woman trying to eke out a living in nightlife and shady businesses. It’s narrated about twenty years later, around the time of the pandemic, as she looks back on... danielwarriner.com/post/sisters-i…
I’ve spotted a few tanuki in the area recently but wasn’t quick enough with my camera. They seem to appear on the hottest summer days, during the rare snowfall in Tokyo, and when the blossoms are falling. I saw this one down my street around this time last year.