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About This Novel

After the Great Kanto Earthquake, Japan in the early Showa era was in the midst of a transformation involving the replacement of the old with the new and the integration of the East and the West. As one of the centers of kabuki culture and Shitamachi, Asakusa saw a large influx of actors and wandering girls. Human traffickers roam the streets, and parks and open spaces are populated by gang members, orphans, and scores of homeless men and women. The protagonist comes from out of town. When he was roaming Asakusa, he met members of the youth gang "Red Band". Under the leadership of the leader Yumiko, he visited the streets of Asakusa, which was at the forefront of the times at that time. The protagonist examines the daily lives of these people with a distant and calm gaze, describing the destruction and establishment, beauty and ugliness, glitz and poverty of Tokyo in that era, and also faintly conveys Kawabata's uneasiness about the current situation as an anti-war opponent.

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