University of Hawaii Press Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913-1938

Modanizumu introduces faces altogether new or relatively unknown: Abe Tomoji, Kajii Motojiro, Murayama Kaita, Osaki Midori, Tachibana Sotoo, Takeda Rintaro, Tani Joji, Yoshiyuki Eisuke, and Yumeno Kyusaku. It also revisits such luminaries as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and the detective novelist Edogawa Ranpo. Key works that it culls from the modernist repertoire include Funabashi Seiichi's ""Diving"", Hagiwara Sukataro's ""Town of Cats,"" Ito Sei's ""Streets of Fiendish Ghosts"", and Kawabata's film scenario ""Page of Madness"".