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During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade
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Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
Author: Kafu Nagai
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During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6344
EAN: 9780804722599
ISBN: 0804722595
Label: Stanford University Press
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 244
Publication Date: 1994-07-01
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Studio: Stanford University Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6344
EAN: 9780804722599
ISBN: 0804722595
Label: Stanford University Press
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 244
Publication Date: 1994-07-01
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Studio: Stanford University Press
Editorial Review of During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade
Nagai Kafu was one of the most important Japanese writers of fiction during the first half of the 20th century. These two works, which appear in English for the first time, are superb examples of the author’s evocative descriptions of the moods and fancies of Tokyo.
Customer Reviews of During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade
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Review Summary: of rain and flower
Review: As Lane Dulop explains in the brief introduction to this book. Nagai Kafu was a ghrumpy man who always looked back to the years before as if they were some golden age. If this was true or not, the only area of society in which Nagai found traces of the days of old were in the districts in which one could find the yami no onna,or the women of the night. This is a wonderful book which does not hold back in explicit description the lives which these women lived. Nagai shows the abject poverty that these women lived in and shows that their livelihood depended on jumping from man to man. But honetly, one can not make oneself dislike these women because of the occupations they follow, because it basically was the only way they could survive in the poverty striken 30s. Give this book a shot you will not be diapointed.
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Review Summary: Mizu shobai.
Review: 'Flowers in the shade' is a typical Kafu story (nearly all his novels are translated in French) about an unlicensed prostitute in the red light district of Tokyo before WW II.
The main character O-Chiyo, falls in the hands of a pimp, Jukichi, but is shameless, happy and satisfied with her amoral life: she survives. In a report in a journal about a police razzia she learns that her daughter was caught. She has the same profession as her mother.
Review Summary: of rain and flower
Review: As Lane Dulop explains in the brief introduction to this book. Nagai Kafu was a ghrumpy man who always looked back to the years before as if they were some golden age. If this was true or not, the only area of society in which Nagai found traces of the days of old were in the districts in which one could find the yami no onna,or the women of the night. This is a wonderful book which does not hold back in explicit description the lives which these women lived. Nagai shows the abject poverty that these women lived in and shows that their livelihood depended on jumping from man to man. But honetly, one can not make oneself dislike these women because of the occupations they follow, because it basically was the only way they could survive in the poverty striken 30s. Give this book a shot you will not be diapointed.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Mizu shobai.
Review: 'Flowers in the shade' is a typical Kafu story (nearly all his novels are translated in French) about an unlicensed prostitute in the red light district of Tokyo before WW II.
The main character O-Chiyo, falls in the hands of a pimp, Jukichi, but is shameless, happy and satisfied with her amoral life: she survives. In a report in a journal about a police razzia she learns that her daughter was caught. She has the same profession as her mother.
Kafu is a writer about moods, about the sentiments of his characters: "The thought that his woman was occasionally intimate with other men gave rise to various fantasies and violently aroused Jukichi's sexual desires. ...
As for O-Chiy, knowing that she had her husband's open permission not only removed any shame from her heart but, since she was working for Jukichi's sake, any feelings of shyness." (p.188)
Kafu's stories have no plot, no real action, but the psychological picture or progression is captivating.
'During the rains' is not typical for Kafu. The story relates some facts about his writing career and is only for Kafu exegetes.