Writers in Kyoto

Category: Fiction

A short story on a hitchhiking experience.

The first few pages of an upcoming novel with a ninja heroine.

A selection from the author's novella.

Description of the genre of short and flash fiction with a few examples and links.

An excerpt from Marianne Kimura's creative Shakespeare-based book.

A contemporary account of weaving, Nishijin, and kimono in Kyoto.

Dougill on Lafcadio Hearn's taste for the macabre.

An extract from a novel penned by David Joiner.

A taster draft of Kevin Ramsden's second work of fiction.

An extract from David Zoppetti's novel entitled Ichigensan.

An excerpt from Kawabata Yasunari's The Old Capital, published in 1962 and first translated into English in 1987.

A short excerpt from Mishima's Temple of the Golden Pavilion, published in 1956 and first translated into English in 1959.