Fannish 50: 2024: Everything is Murder edition: #11: Hokaku and shin honkaku

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I enjoy reading translations of Japanese detective fiction into English, both modern works and older works. Hokaku is usually translated as 'fair play,' meaning the kind of story where all the clues are laid out and it is possible for the reader to solve the mystery. This style is the classic style and 'shin honkaku' or 'new fair play' is the modern revisiting of this classic style. I don't often get excited about new books and I'm hardly ever tempted to pre-order but I am tempted by the new release of the translation of Seishi Yokomizo's The Little Sparrow Murders, which is supposed to be out at the end of this month (April).

I tried my hand at a tanka inspired by the shin honkaku novel The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (which I talked about in the book bingo).

Mill House Murders tanka by okapi

rubber face distorts
while waterwheel churns
in gristly measure

after the storm, lust's blind greed
unmasked and re-membered

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And I did a collage of two honkaku works by Seishi Yokomizo.





The List

Fannish 50: 2024: #1: Jeeves & Wooster
Fannish 50: 2024: #2: Libraries
Fannish 50: 2024: #3: Facial Sheet Masks
Fannish 50: 2024: #4: Venom
Fannish 50: 2024: #5: jhope of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #6: the art of Edward Gorey
Fannish 50: 2024: #7: The works of Edgar Allan Poe
Fannish 50: 2024: #8: SUGA of BTS
Fannish 50: 2024: #9: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Fannish 50: 2024: #10: Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Fannish 50: 2024: #11: Honkaku & shin honkaku detective fiction

Comments

[smallhobbit]

That's a clever tanka and I do like the collage.

[dr_zook]

Tasteful collages! And the tanka is very intriguing-- brilliant. :D