• The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (浅草紅團, Asakusa Kurenaidan) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. It was originally serialized in a newspaper...
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    Denkikan. The golden years of Asakusa are vividly portrayed in Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1930). The area was heavily damaged by...
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    Yasunari Kawabata (category Recipients of the Order of Culture)
    different styles of writing. In Asakusa kurenaidan (The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa), serialized from 1929 to 1930, he explores the lives of the demimonde and...
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  • Mosque in central Tokyo Asakusa Shrine in Asakusa, Tokyo Toei Asakusa Line, a subway line in Tokyo The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, a novel by Yasunari Kawabata...
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    for the cause of the Great Kantō earthquake, connecting it with the principles of feng shui. In Yasunari Kawabata's 1930 novel The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa...
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  • of works of fiction that have been made into feature films, from S to Z. The title of the work and the year it was published are both followed by the...
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    13 February 2021 at the age of 96. The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1952) Tange Sazen (1952) The Wild Geese (1953) The Woman in the Rumor (1954) Princess...
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    during the early part of the 20th century, and nearly non-existent before then, due to the taboo nature of homosexuality at the time. Many early novels...
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