Had Mrs Gaskell lived in Japan and a century later, she might have written this intimate portrait of four sisters of good family living in Osaka in somewhat straitened circumstances. Their efforts to find a suitable husband for the third sister take place in the years and months just before the great wave of WW2 broke over Japan.
The Makioka Sisters
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Baskets: Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art 1850-2015
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Takes the reader from the earliest written accounts to the present in vivid portraits. The empress Masako is there, and presumably princess Murasaki Shikibu, whose diary is not only fascina... read more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
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The Japanese Chronicles
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Vintage Japanese crime fiction, by a master of the genre, first published in 1950: the head of a clan leaves a very peculiar will, and its reading is followed by a series of unusual murders.
The Inugami Curse
Paperback £8.99