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the author asks "the purists" not to judge, as she didn't aim for historical accuracy in her fictionalised "japan". well, i'm certainly no purist, but accuracy (historical or otherwise) is the least of hearn's problems. it felt to me as if characters with clearly western mind-set were slapped onto pseudo-japanese backgrounds for exotics. the characters were flat, the story lines were hokey. i hoped it would get better in the second installment.