The Samurai Detectives - Shotaro Ikenami There's No Turning Back broke

There's No Turning Back broke radical new ground in representing modern women's lives when it first appeared in 1938

A city rife with possibility and desire

while others shout "Africa"

and between words and silence

The Samurai Detectives - Shotaro Ikenami There's No Turning Back brokeIt has been half a year since Akiyama Daijiro became a samurai; half a year since he left his father Kohei once the most skilled swordsman in the land to set up his own blade school by the cool of the river. Ever since, amid the swaying bamboo groves, he waits patiently for his first disciple. But his serenity is soon disrupted by the visit of a mysterious samurai with an unhonourable offer: in exchange for a vast sum of gold, he must attack and