A Strange Tale from East of the River

Name: A Strange Tale from East of the River
Author: Nagai Kafu

by Nagai Kafu

Collection of tales set in Tokyo's red-light district and lower classes

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Nagai Kafu

Japanese aesthete and novelist who mourned the destruction of old Edo culture by modernization. His fiction, set in the pleasure quarters and low city of Tokyo, is celebrated for its elegiac beauty and social dissent.

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