Izumi Kyoka Literary Award いずみきょうかぶんがくしょう
Edition 12 (1984)
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Winners
1 peopleRepresentative prizewinning works of Baku Akae’s fantastic fiction. Free-ranging images around straits and a modern echo of Lafcadio Hearn’s ghostly world create an eerie, sensuous aftertaste.
The uncanny and the modern intersect, and the story shimmers across time and space.
318 pages
fantastic fictionghost storiesLafcadio Hearnstraitsaestheticism