of books in particular and japanophilia in general

who would have told me that in my small neighborhood library i'd be introduced to a vast number of contemporary japanese  woman writers? 

even as it seems, at least to me, that murakami has set the canon of japanese contemporary fiction those writers  voices come across as personal, subtle yet poignant. there is not a fleck of over sentimentality to be seen. 

i have also discovered a small publishing house based in gijon that specialises in japanese literature and their books are carefully edited beautiful to look at and a pleasure to hold, not to mention read.

it is a good  confirmation that there is life beyond barcelona and madrid.

some side thoughts: a great write up on contemporary japanese lit. 

and the icing on my cake or should i say mochi? there's an indie film cycle on tv showing japanese movies. so far yamada's  a tokyo family, a take on ozu's tokyo monogatari which was shown the following week to round out the discourse. then the little red house also by yamada which is waiting for some disposable time in order to be watched. 

neki desu