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Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction. He is also a major writer in the tradition of Japanese Modernism, and exerts a massive influence on the popular and literary culture of today's Japan....

Written between the ages of 16 and 21, the poems in this book form a chronicle of youthful striving. Comprised of eight sections written at various turning-points in the young author's life, they afford glimpses into Jani's inner-journey as he traverses "The countless thresholds on the road from adolescence to adulthood....