Abstract

Nachi Takada, a 14-year-old girl, visits Iwakura for the first time in four years. For the next two months, she will be staying at a ryokan (Japanese style hotel) run by her relatives, and during the daytime, she will participate in a camp held in the vicinity of Iwakura Castle. The morning after her arrival, Nachi feels unwell and vomits blood violently and profusely. Nachi soon learns of the purpose of the camp at Iwakura from her relative Fukashi Mikage, and fellow camp participant Masaki Amachi...

Author’s Information

Born in 1964. Made her debut in 1992 with "Rokubannme no Sayoko (The Sixth Sayoko)". She won the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary New Writers Award and the Hon-ya Taisho Award for "Yoru no Picnic (Picnic in the Night)," the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for "Eugenia," the Shugoro Yamamoto Award for "Nakaniwa no Dekigoto (A Happening in the Courtyard)," and the Naoki Award and Honya Taisho Award for "Mitsubachi to Enrai (Honeybees and Distant Thunder)".