2022/154: The Cat and the City — Nick Bradley

2022/154: The Cat and the City — Nick Bradley

...there it was, neko – cat. But it was different to how it was written normally. The normal way to write the character was 猫 – with this radical 犭 on the left. The character Ogawa had sent had 豸 on the left. That was the tanuki radical. This must be an older version, relating the cat to other shapeshifting animals like the badger, fox and tanuki. [loc. 1656]

A series of interlinked stories set in Tokyo, in what's turned out to be an alternate, Covid-free reality where the Tokyo Olympics of 2020 weren't postponed to 2021. ( Read more... )