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Akimitsu Takagi (高木 彬光, Takagi Akimitsu, 25 September 1920 – 9 September 1995) was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi.
Sep 9, 1995 · Akimitsu Takagi (高木 彬光 , Takagi Akimitsu?, 25 September 1920–9 September 1995), was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi. Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan.
AKIMITSU TAKAGI was born in Japan in 1920 and went on to work as an aeronautical engineer until the end of the Second World War. He later decided to become a mystery writer on the recommendation of a fortune teller. He went on to become one of the country’s most popular crime authors.
The Tattoo Murder Case. Akimitsu Takagi, Barry Lancet (Foreword), Deborah Boehm (Translator) 3.75. 2,970 ratings420 reviews. Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder? Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days later she is gone.
Jan 10, 2023 · Known particularly for the novel Irezumi (1948), which sold several hundred thousand copies, Akimitsu Takagi—born in 1920 as Seiichi Takagi—made a mark on the world of crime novels in the Showa era.
Aug 7, 2023 · Akimitsu Takagi’s The Tattoo Murder is a “locked room” mystery, originally published in Japan in 1948 and now available in English translation by Deborah Boehm. The novel introduces Detective Kyosuke Kamizu who appeared in Takagi’s stories from the 1940s to the 1990s.
Akimitsu Takagi has 111 books on Goodreads with 13580 ratings. Akimitsu Takagi’s most popular book is The Tattoo Murder Case.
About The Tattoo Murder Case. Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that bore one of the most beautiful full-body tattoos ever rendered.
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The Tattoo Murder Case. Akimitsu Takagi. Soho Press, Jul 1, 2003 - Fiction - 353 pages. One of Japan’s most popular mystery writers delivers “scenes of fastidiously executed decadence” in a “tale...
Akimitsu Takagi was born in Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He graduated from the Daiichi High School and Kyoto Imperial University, where he studied metallurgy. On the advice of a fortune teller, he decided to become a writer.
