Författare: Kafu Nagai

Geisha in Rivalry, first published as Udekurabe in 1918, has a secure place among Kafu Nagai’s masterpieces. Set against the backdrop of Tokyo’s Shimbashi geisha district, a company of vivid characte …

First published in 1937, this is a book both modern and nostalgic. It shows a changing city, its slums, backstreets, temples and shrines, a city filled with erudite establishments and riverside broth …

’Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!’Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai’s Behind the Prison, Uno’s Closet LLB and Akutagawa’s deeply macabre …