Bullfight (Akutagawa Prize Winner)

The prize-winning debut of one of Japan's greatest authors, this novella follows a journalist’s crazy scheme to stage a bullfight in postwar Osaka.

“A disarmingly simple tale of ambition and entrepreneurial daring... written in tight, confident prose.” – Financial Times

Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in war-scarred Osaka, agrees to sponsor a bullfight. For months this great gamble consumes him, makes him as wary and combative as if he was in a ring himself. And, as he becomes ev...