Japan and Sherlock Holmes
By: edited [and translated] by Yuichi Hirayama, Masamichi Higurashi, and Hirotaka Ueda.
Contributors: Hirayama, Yūichi, 1963-; Higurashi, Masamichi, 1954-; Ueda, Hirotaka, 1941-; Baker Street Irregulars (Organization : U.S.)
Series: The Baker Street Irregulars International Series, 1
Publisher: Baker Street Irregulars
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780964878877
Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan, -- Sir, -- 1859-1930 -- Characters -- Sherlock Holmes.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Criticism and interpretation.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Appreciation -- Japan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE; title: PART 1: INTRODUCTION; title: Now and Then of Japanese Sherlockiana (A Brief History); title: by Masamichi Higurashi; title: Influence of the Canon on Japanese Detective Stories; title: by Yuichi Hirayama; title: A Short History of the Juvenile Version of Sherlock Holmes Tales in Japan; title: by Hirotaka Ueda; title: PART 2: HISTORIC AND EPOCH-MAKING ARTICLES; title: An Interview with Mr. Conan Doyle; title: by Kan-ichi Ando; title: Professor Moriarty; title: by Fuboku Kosakai; title: On Conan Doyle; title: by Saburo Kohga; title: Japan Chapter of The Baker Street Irregulars; title: by Edogawa Rampo; title: Poe and Doyle; title: by Edogawa Rampo; title: Sherlock Holmes and “Baritsu”; title: by Shinken Makino; title: PART 3: ARTICLES FROM A FRESH VIEWPOINT; title: Some Observations on Tobacco; title: by Kohki Naganuma; title: Whereabouts of the Man with the Twisted Lip; title: by Yuro Nakagawa; title: Is It Possible to Use a Fiend Dog for Murder?—Analyzing The Hound of the Baskervilles; title: by Tatsuo Saneyoshi; title: Could Holmes Have Had Lunch in a Dining Car?; title: by Shigeru Koike; title: The True Identity of Stapleton; title: by Shin-ichi Kanto; title: The Count of Monte Cristo* and *A Study in Scarlet*; title: by Fumitaka Sasano; title: Fishing with Cormorants; title: by Ryohei Matsushita; title: On the Content of “The Dynamics of an Asteroid”; title: by Koji Hashimoto; title: The True Identity of the King of Bohemia; title: by Yuichi Hirayama; title: Sherlock Holmes: The Chronology of His Adventures; title: by Toshio Suzuki; title: The Adventure of William K. Burton in Japan; title: by Takashi Ishii; title: PART 4: ESSAYS, POEMS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS; title: The Baker Street Irregulars’ Dinner in the Snow; title: by Tsukasa Kobayashi and Akane Higashiyama; title: The Death of a Soldier; title: by On Watanabe; title: Art in the Blood; title: by Tsutomu Iwamoto; title: A Clue for the “Without A Clue”; title: by Seiji Kasahara; title: Error Margin of the Number of the Bricks Under 3%; title: by Kiyoshi Tanaka; title: The Tokyo Mentor, Forever and Ever; title: by Fumiyoshi Takahashi; title: CONTRIBUTORS; title: APPENDICES