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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.
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Learn about Akimitsu Takagi, a Japanese crime author who won the Mystery Writers Club Award and wrote The Tattoo Murder. He also took photos of tattooists and their subjects, revealing the underground world of traditional Japanese tattoos.
Akimitsu Takagi, Barry Lancet (Foreword), Deborah Boehm (Translator) 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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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.
By night, an eerie figure, clad in a sinister Hannya mask is seen roaming around the house. An amateur murder mystery writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is sent to investigate — but his investigation takes a harrowing turn as tragedy strikes the Chizurui family.
Akimitsu Takagi has 110 books on Goodreads with 12304 ratings. Akimitsu Takagi’s most popular book is The Tattoo Murder Case.
