After completing that series in 2022, Takahama began developing a new story inspired by the secret Christian history of her hometown and legends ... fall 2023 as a guest of the church’s booth ...

Folklorist Kunio Yanagita’s (1875-1962) “Tono Monogatari Shui” (Gleanings of the legends of Tono ... newspaper distributed in two cities and one town. This must have been the writer ...