Jesus's Face
Father Rodrigues fantasizes about Jesus's face the way that teenage Beliebers fantasize about Justin's. As he spends more time in Japan, however, Rodrigues's mental image of Jesus shifts and change...
Seeds and Swamps
In a way, Silence uses a series of plant-based metaphors to create its own theory of evolution. Instead of studying how biological organisms adapt to their environment, however, we'll be looking at...
Japan and the West
The Magistrate Inoue uses the idea of marriage to illustrate Japan's relationship to the West. Because why not?The Four MistressesFirst, Inoue tells the story of a Japanese monarch forced to choose...