Synopsis
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In this classic tale of tortured ambition and the eventual discovery of artistic enlightenment, Nakajima Atsushi brilliantly blends Confucian and Zen Buddhist thought in a well crafted, cinematic story about an archer on a quest to be the greatest of all time. This Japanese literary masterpiece is the first in "Maplopo's "Masters of Story" collection. A unique gathering of Japanese literature translated into English that highlights some of the most wonderfully diverse stories from Japan's most treasured writers. The next release in the "Masters of Story" collection is "Wind, Light, and the Twenty-Year Old Me" from Sakaguchi Ango.
This is the first in the Maplopo Masters of Story collection.
Additional English translations of Japanese literature include:
Wish Fulfilled, by Dazai Osamu (now exclusively available in Daffodil)
Wind, Light and the Twenty-Year-Old Me, by Sakaguchi Ango
Daffodil, by Dazi Osamu
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About the Authors
Maplopo is Doc and Reiko Kane. Maplopo team translates and publishes Japanese literature in English, then folds those stories into a one-of-a-kind intermediate Japanese language learning program students love. In general, one short story or vignette is translated and published each year.
Doc's versatile writing style has peppered the web and all manner of printed communication materials since 1994. He's a veteran of the music and entertainment industries and a recovering marketer. He's worked in businesses large and small and for five years fired his way through the dental industry, writing hundreds of medical and health articles for the dental software firm, RevenueWell as their marketing communications manager. Doc has also been a film story analyst, and script reader for multiple film festivals in the United States. You may have even seen him on camera in Showtime's "Shameless," "Civil War Deniers," "Professor Mack," and CNBC. Doc was also the archival film and audio researcher for The History Channel's Emmy-nominated, "Vietnam in HD" series. In 2017, Doc retired to Japan to write and research even more, and currently runs Maplopo (maplopo.com) with his wife Reiko.
Co-founder of the Japanese to English translation firm, Maplopo (maplopo.com). Throughout her childhood and young-adulthood, Reiko developed a deep fascination for language and literature. Carrying that curiosity with her to the United States, she studied linguistics at San Diego State University, later returning to Japan, and settling in Kobe.As co-founder of Maplopo, she enjoys working with Doc Kane translating classic and new Japanese literature for a worldwide audience. The distilling of these difficult-to-translate works into English is a passion of hers, and unlocking the perspectives of classic Japanese authors for a wider audience is always propelling her and her work forward.
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