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Yasunari Kawabata

Asakusa kurenaidan

1930
Tokyo, Japan

In Asakusa kurenaidan (The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa), one of Kawabata's novels published in 1930, he explores the lives of the demimonde and others on the fringe of society, in a style echoing that of late Edo period literature.


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