Sexuality and Space: Tokyo and Karuizawa in Mariko Koike’s ‘Koi’

This article employs Koike Mariko’s novel Koi [1995] as a case study to explore the functions of urban space in contemporary Japanese fiction. It examines the way that urban space works as an axis upon which the characters in Koi interact, and analyses how those interactions function in direct propo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mina Qiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japan Foundation, Sydney 2015-06-01
Series:New Voices in Japanese Studies
Subjects:
Koi
Online Access:http://newvoices.org.au/volume-7/sexuality-and-space-tokyo-and-karuizawa-in-mariko-koikes-koi/