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Post by pallidus on Oct 12, 2011 13:46:45 GMT -5
Im looking for any good Japanese historical fiction books. Anyone got any good recommendations?
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Oct 12, 2011 13:55:56 GMT -5
I have a copy of Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi I'd be happy to lend you. (Staffan saw it used somewhere and decided I needed to have it.)
Liza Dalby's The Tale of Murasaki is a fictional "autobiography" of the author of the Tale of Genji.
I'm currently marching through the McCullough translation of the Taiheiki, with the feeling I should've kept a score card. It's a great read, but keeping names straight of who is supporting which claimant is a little tricky.
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Post by solveig on Oct 12, 2011 15:59:18 GMT -5
Noble Cousins! Greetings from Solveig! I have a copy of Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi I'd be happy to lend you. (Staffan saw it used somewhere and decided I needed to have it.) It is a good read as is his other big novel "Taiko" ISBN 4770026099 which is about Hideyoshi. |
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Post by Suzuki Ken'ichi on Oct 13, 2011 9:25:01 GMT -5
I'll third Yoshikawa Eiji.
Also, there's a series by Laura Joh Rowland, the Sano Ichiro mysteries, which are set in the Edo period, which is after the SCA period, but they're fabulous.
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Post by pallidus on Oct 16, 2011 13:23:28 GMT -5
Thanks everybody. I just ordered The Tale of Murasaki from the library.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Nov 10, 2011 14:53:24 GMT -5
Pallidus-dono,
Do you want me to bring "Musashi" this weekend? I'm done with it.
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Post by pallidus on Nov 10, 2011 21:17:16 GMT -5
Thank you Makiwara - I actually have a copy and have almost completed it.
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