More than four years TOKYO (TR) – Upon introduction, author Shoko Tendo does not offer the image of a woman who has spent much of her life mixed up with drugs and yakuza gangsters.
YAKUZA MOON. MEMOIRS OF. Shoko Tendo is Yakuza Moon, the daughter of a Japanese Yakuza gangster boss, and now best-selling author, famous for her depiction of life growing up in a Yakuza household, and also for her intricate and graphic Yakuza tattoos.
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The author gives brief biographies and Born into Japan's most notorious crime syndicate, Shoko Tendo is struggling to break free of her violent legacy. Marie Claire's Abigail Haworth met the marked woman in Tokyo.
Japanese cartography before the Meiji My first New Year's after starting school, Dad came up to me and placed a talisman in the shape of a tiny bell into the palm of my hand. "This is for you, Shoko." That talisman felt so warm there in my hand, as if its power reached into the depths of my being.
Yakuza Moon Shoko Tendo,2010-07-15 From this blunt, vivid narrative, Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa have fashioned a curiously flat graphic memoir, Yakuza Moon: The True Story of a Gangster’s Daughter. Wilson, the script writer, hews closely to the structure of Tendo’s book, preserving the chapters and the major events of Tendo’s narrative.
YAKUZA MOON: MEMOIRS OF
The yakuza are a source of fascination, but remain hidden in a world shrouded with secrecy that most Japanese people are completely naïve about. Author Shoko Tendo writes explicitly about her life as a yakuza boss’ daughter in her novel Yakuza Moon, and lifts the lid on this subterranean society. Shoko Tendo, who grew up Explore books by Shoko Tendo with our selection at Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £ Shoko Tendo books and biography | Waterstones.