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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 before eventually being compiled into a novel in 1930.
- Yasunari Kawabata
- 1930
This article presents the narrative space of Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa ( Asakusa kurenaidan) as the territory of the dispossessed girl—that is, the territory of young women and girl children who must largely live by selling either their labor or their bodies.
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa is a revealing recreation of the rough and racy atmosphere of Tokyo called Asakusa during the late 1920s and early 30s, and it is quite different from notions of aestheticized Japan often associated with Kawabata's other work.
Originally serialized in a Tokyo daily newspaper in 1929 and 1930, this vibrant novel uses unorthodox, kinetic literary techniques to reflect the raw energy of Asakusa, seen through the eyes of a wandering narrator and the cast of mostly female juvenile delinquents who show him their way of life.
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University of California Press, Ltd. London, England. Originally published as Asakusa kurenaidan in 1930 by Senshinsha. Chapters 1 through 37 were serialized in Tokyo Asahi from December 20, 1929, to February 16, 1930.
Asakusa kurenaidan: Directed by Sadae Takami. With Ikko Kômiya, Yoshiko Tokugawa, Michiko Hayama, Kaoru Wakaba. Describes the decadent allure of the entertainment district, Tokyo's Montmartre, where beggars and teenage prostitutes mixed with revue dancers and famous authors.
Available in English for the first time, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, captures the decadent allure of this entertainment district, where beggars...
