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Hanshichi, a policeman in Tokugawa era Japan, works on three puzzling cases. In so doing the reader sees something of the Tokyo of the 1860s, but Hanshichi is no sword swinging samurai. He is methodical in searching for the reasons for a severed head and other mysteries. The author has based this book on stories published in the period 1913-1936 by Japanese writer Okamoto Kido.


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Edward Seidensticker is one of the foremost translators of Japanese classical literature and has written extensively on Tokyo in "Tokyo, Low City, High City" and "Tokyo Rising".

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