Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses Spring 7-2-2013 Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives in Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction Jessica Claire Kindler Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the Japanese Studies Commons, and the Translation Studies Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Kindler, Jessica Claire, "Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives in Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction" (2013). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1011. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.1011 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. Tokuya Higashigawa‘s After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives in Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction by Jessica Claire Kindler A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Japanese Thesis Committee: Jon Holt, Chair Laurence Kominz Suwako Watanabe Portland State University 2013 © 2013 Jessica Claire Kindler i Abstract The detective fiction (tantei shōsetsu) genre is one that came into Japan from the West around the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868), and soon became wildly popular. Again in recent years, detective fiction has experienced a popularity boom in Japan, and there has been an outpouring of new detective fiction books as well as various television and movie adaptations. It is not a revelation that the Japanese detective fiction genre, while rife with imitation and homage to Western works, took a dramatic turn somewhere along the line, away from celebrated models like Poe, Doyle, and Christie, and developed into a unique subgenre of Japanese prose.