Taku Ashibe Explained

Taku Ashibe
Birth Date:	1958 5, df=yes
Birth Place:	Osaka, Japan
Occupation:	Writer
Language:	Japanese
Period:	1990–present
Genre:	Whodunit, locked room mystery, detective fiction, mystery fiction, thriller, horror
Movement:	The new traditionalist movement
Awards:	Ayukawa Tetsuya Award (1990)

is a Japanese mystery writer. He is a member of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing.

Works in English translation

Novel

• Murder in the Red Chamber (original title: Kōrōmu no Satsujin), trans. Tyran C. Grillo (Kurodahan Press, 2012)^[1]

Short story

• "The Horror in the Kabuki Theatre" (original title: "Gohei Gekijō: Kabuki no Kuni Cthulhu Taiji"), trans. Sheryl Hogg (Lairs of the Hidden Gods 2: Inverted Kingdom, Kurodahan Press, 2005)^[2]
• "The Mummy and the Unicorn" (original title: "Miira to Unikōru"), trans. Nancy H. Ross (Strokes of Brush and Blade: Tales of the Samurai, Kurodahan Press, 2019)
• "The Dashing Joker" (original title: "Shikku-suru Jōkā"), trans. Yuko Shimada (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October, 2020)

Awards and nominations

• 1990 – Ayukawa Tetsuya Award for New Mystery Writers: Satsujin Kigeki no Jūsan-nin (Thirteen in a Murder Comedy)
• 2002 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Guran Ginyōru Jō (The Castle of Grand Guignol)
• 2005 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Murder in the Red Chamber^[3]
• 2009 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Saiban'in Hōtei (The Lay Judge Court)
• 2011 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Kisōkyū Satsujin Jiken
• 2013 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Suchīmu Opera (Steam Opera)
• 2018 – Drunkard Bookseller's Award for: Kitan o Uru mise (The Shop that Sells Strange Tales)
• 2022 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award and Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Ōmarike Satsujin Jiken (The Ōmari Family Murder Case)

Bibliography

Detective Shunsaku Morie series

• Novels
  • , 1990
  • , 1995
  • , 1996
  • , 1997
  • , 1998
  • , 1999
  • , 2000
  • , 2000
  • , 2001
  • , 2001
  • , 2006
  • , 2008
  • , 2010
  • , 2011
  • , 2012
  • , 2013
  • , 2014
  • , 2016
  • , 2020
• Short story collections
  • , 1998
  • , 2001
  • , 2005
  • , 2006
  • , 2008
  • , 2022

Modern City series

• , 1994 – Novel
• , 2009 – Short story collection

Jichikei tokuso series

• , 1998 – Short story collection
• , 2002 – Novel

Standalone mystery novels

• , 1994
• , 2004
• , 2004 (Murder in the Red Chamber, Kurodahan Press, 2012)
• , 2012
• , 2021
• , 2023

Short story collections

• , 2002
• , 2003
• , 2007
  • • • • • • • (The Horror in the Kabuki Theatre)
• , 2000
• , 2002
• , 2006
• , 2007
• , 2011
• , 2013
• , 2013
• , 2017
• , 2017
• , 2019
• , 2020
• , 2022

Juvenile mystery novels

• Neo Detective Boys series
  • , 2004
  • , 2005
  • , 2005
• , 2008
• , 2012
• , 2015

Historical fiction

• • • Vol.1, 1995
  • Vol.2, 1996
  • Vol.3, 1997
• , 2018

See also

• Golden Age of Detective Fiction#The "new traditionalist" movement in Japanese mystery writing
• Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
• Japanese detective fiction

External links

• Twitter
• Murder in the Red Chamber by Taku Ashibe, Kurodahan Press
• Review of Murder in the Red Chamber by David Cozy in The Japan Times

Notes and References

1. News: 18th-century murder mystery still delivers The Japan Times. The Japan Times. 2018-10-08. en-US.
2. Web site: Lairs of the Hidden Gods 2: Inverted Kingdom. Kurodahan Press. 13 October 2013.
3. http://honkaku.com/english.html The Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan