English releases on file: Mar 14, 2012.
Fallen Words
These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can't extinguish their jealousy.
- Volumes
- 1 in the canonical sequence
- English packaging
- 1 book, 1 release
- Publishers
- Drawn & Quarterly
- Also known as
- Gekiga Yose: Shibahama, 劇画寄席 芝浜
Reading path
Drawn & Quarterly · 1 book in reading order
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