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He even retroactively names one character from A Wild Sheep Chase – a woman called Kiki. Even with real names, however, Murakami is playful. Kiki has beautiful ears and her name means “hearing.” There is a mother called Rain and her daughter is Snow. The father is called Hiraku Makimura, an anagram of Haruki Murakami.
The following is a list of Japanese women writers and manga artists A. Hotaru Akane (born 1983), blogger, lyricist; Akiko Akazome (1974–2017), novelist; Akazome ...
Yoshimoto began her writing career while working as a waitress at a golf club restaurant in 1987. Her debut work, Kitchen (1988), had over 60 printings in Japan alone. . There have been two film adaptations: a Japanese TV movie [4] and a more widely released version titled Wo ai chu fang, produced in Hong Kong by Ho Yim in
A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.
The cover of the first volume of the Book Girl light novel series released by Enterbrain. Book Girl is a collection of Japanese light novels written by Mizuki Nomura, with illustrations by Miho Takeoka. The novels share the common title Book Girl (文学少女, Bungaku Shōjo), which is where the series gets its name. The series centers around ...
"Ameonna" (雨女) from the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Toriyama Sekien "Hyakumonogatari Ameonna" (百物語 雨女) by Utagawa Yoshiiku. Ameonna (雨 (あめ) 女 (おんな), "rain woman") is a Japanese yōkai thought to call forth rain, illustrated in Toriyama Sekien's Konjaku Hyakki Shūi as a woman standing in the rain and licking her hand.
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl is the first English-language novel published in the United States by a Japanese writer. Acquired for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Monthly Magazine by editor Ellery Sedgwick in 1901, it appeared in two excerpted installments in November and December of that year with illustrations by Genjiro Yeto .
Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture.For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community of Ponto-chō, which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The institution of the geisha in modern Japanese society.