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Fish MarkAuthor: Yoshikawa Eiji
| Original Title | 魚紋 |
|---|---|
| Author | 吉川 英治 |
| Genre | Popular Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In the shadowed backstreets of Edo, a clandestine Go club becomes a stage for ambition and deceit. Mistress Okaku, a woman of enigmatic grace and rumored noble past, presides over nightly games where four men—a cunning pawnbroker, a debt-ridden surgeon, a scarred samurai, and a timid artist—gamble fortunes and secrets. Beneath their camaraderie simmers greed: whispers of stolen gold sunk in the river ignite a treacherous race. Bonds fracture as alliances shift—murder plots brew, betrayals unfold, and Okaku’s allure masks her own ruthless agenda. Moonlit riverbanks and bloodstained lumberyards bear witness to desperate acts, while the promise of wealth lures each deeper into a web of drowning currents and buried corpses. As loyalties dissolve like cherry blossoms in spring rain, survival hinges on outwitting death itself. But in this game, even victory may sink beneath the weight of seven hundred golden coins… |
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