![]() ![]() What other countries would you like to use as setting in future books? It was such a spooky place to walk around at night, when fog came up from the valley, and it really got me thinking about what secrets could hide in the darkness, especially during such a tumultuous period at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.Īs I already said, A Darkly Beating Heart is set in Edo Japan and your duology Sekret is set in Russia. No external electric lights or cables, just low two- or three-story wooden structures with clay tile roofs, all winding their way up the hillside, lit by paper lanterns. The exteriors of the town of Tsumago in Kifu prefecture has been kept more or less exactly as it appeared in the 1860s. Lindsay: I’ve always been interested in Japanese culture, particularly the pre-Meiji periods, but it wasn’t until I visited a historically preserved village on my 2014 trip to Japan that I got the idea for A Darkly Beating Heart. ![]() How long have you been interested in Japanese culture and why did you decide that Edo Japan was the best setting for A Darkly Beating Heart? ![]()
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