The Village of Eight Graves

As the saying goes: nobody lends to those in need, while everybody lends to those who have.

of murders was none other than Dr Kuno. And why had he

the hermitage. Am I right?”

When criminals manage to conceal their motive, they have already achieved more than half of their goal.

But in this world, it is never so clear-cut what is happiness and what misfortune.

all appearances, it’s dedicated to Inari, the god of rice and harvests, but the truth is that it’s always been dedicated to a great samurai from the Amago clan, who was killed by the villagers centuries ago. The armour was his. It’s said to be a sort of relic.” As the reader knows, the samurai’s armour was now clothing the wax corpse at the Monkey’

Buddhist sense of fatalism, with deeds echoing down through generations and determining not only our destinies but those of our descendants.

In the presence of others, we so rarely show what we feel deep down. But when we think that no one is looking, it often escapes us in spite of ourselves.

Everything takes ten times as long in the countryside: what takes one year to forget in the city takes ten years in that village.