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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
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (Asakusa kurenaidan), written by Kawabara Yasunari (1899–1972), is a playful yet complex novel that captures a time and place in Tokyo lost through the ravages of natural disasters, war, and historical change.
In Asakusa kurenaidan (The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa), serialized from 1929 to 1930, he explores the lives of the demimonde and others on the fringe of society, in a style echoing that of late Edo period literature.
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.
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.
- Sadae Takami
- 1930-09-05
- Drama
- Ikko Kômiya, Yoshiko Tokugawa, Michiko Hayama
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.
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.
