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Aarghity week. The provinces of my body revolted, with the result that my shoulders ache and I'm two kilos lighter than I was on Thursday. However, the up news is that the late-Meiji weird tales novel I ordered, with illos by Ima Ichiko, has a manga story by her at the beginning. This is nice. Though when I ordered it, I think I was hoping for something more Hatsu Akiko-ish-- misty rains, damp Japanese-style houses, dank western-style houses, pale and phthistic Meiji literati. OTOH the novel's setting is 1900 when I believe the uneasinesses of earlier Meiji, that Hatsu sensei illustrates so well in her Rainy Willow series, had been replaced by the burgeoning self-confidence that led to the Russo-Japanese war. The literary types who surround the hapless sub-editor protagonist certainly seem burgeonly self-confident enough. But I should read the stories themselves and see what the actual author has to say.
(Should note that all the phthistic Meiji literati I can think of, except for Higuchi Ichiyo, died after 1900. Should also note that this collection is something like the fourth in the series.)
(Should note that all the phthistic Meiji literati I can think of, except for Higuchi Ichiyo, died after 1900. Should also note that this collection is something like the fourth in the series.)
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