The Roof Tile of Tempyo

Name: The Roof Tile of Tempyo
Author: Yasushi Inoue

by Yasushi Inoue

Historical fiction about an emperor's spiritual quest for immortality and meaning

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Yasushi Inoue

Japanese novelist celebrated for historical novels set in Central Asia and ancient Japan. His precise, austere prose style and archaeological imagination produced fiction of unusual spiritual depth.

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