A Chaos of Flowers

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.

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  Ken Ogata

  Kan Yosano
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  Sayuri Yoshinaga

  Akiko Yosano
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  Keiko Matsuzaka

  Sumako Matsui
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  Kimiko Ikegami

  Akiko Hatano
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  Morio Kazama

  Sakae Osugi
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  Eri Ishida

  Noe Ito
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  Yoshiko Nakada

  Tomiko Yamakawa
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  Mineko Nishikawa

  Takino Hayashi
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  Mikio Narita

  Harufusa Hatano
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  Keizo Kanie

  Hogetsu Shimamura