← Nagai KafuFlowers in the Shadeby Nagai KafuFind on Amazon↗About the authorNagai KafuJapanese 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.More by Nagai KafuA Strange Tale from East of the RiverCollection of tales set in Tokyo's red-light district and lower classes→The River SumidaNovella depicting longing and melancholy in the life of a geisha→Geisha in RivalryStory exploring rivalry and artistic aspiration among geishas→