← Ibuse MasujiSalamanderby Ibuse MasujiFarcical tale of man obsessed with capturing prehistoric salamander specimensFind on Amazon↗About the authorIbuse MasujiJapanese novelist best known for Black Rain, a devastating fictional account of the Hiroshima atomic bombing drawn from survivor diaries. His restrained, ironic prose style was deeply influential on postwar Japanese fiction.More by Ibuse MasujiBlack RainTragic novel of atomic bomb survivors struggling with illness and displacement→CastawaysAdventure novel of shipwrecked sailors adapted by small island community→Lieutenant Lookeast→