Cultural References
Laura Joh Rowland's 2008 novel The Fire Kimono, 13th in her Sano Ichiro detective/mystery series set in Edo revolves around a murder being investigated 43 years after the fire, with many flashbacks and descriptions of a fictionalized version of the events surrounding the fire, and the unlucky kimono said to have started the fire during its incineration, after claiming the lives of three successive teenage wearers. It was a long sleeved kimono, said (in the novel) to have been made and worn to impress a suitor.
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