Tales of a Coalman

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Sumiyaki Monogatari
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Narrates the daily life of young Ue Toshikatsu that family tradition, is dedicated to the profession hard coal in the prefecture of Wakayama. The first-person protagonist reveals the painstaking process of making charcoal and strikes up a conversation with the reader through everyday stories and folktales of the region transmitted from antiquity.

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Themes
Educational Folklore Cohabitation › Protagonist Lives Alone Culture › Japanese Society Philosophy › Mono no Aware Sports › Fishing
Activities
Hunting
Audience Demographics
Male Oriented › Seinen
Character Traits
Realistic Characters
Character Types
Protagonists › Hard-Working Protagonist
Derivative Work > Based on
Real Life Based on Literature › Based on a Novel
Locations
Countryside Asia › Japan
Narrative Tropes
Story Structure › Story Within Story
Storytelling Techniques
Meta Narrator
Time Period
Post-War
Period Piece
Late Modern & Contemporary › 20th Century

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