Six young men and women navigate love and ambition in Meiji Japan's collision of tradition and modernity.
Books mentioned in Poppies (1)
Avatamsaka Sutra: “'The Avatamsaka Sutra has a line, "outwardly a bodhisattva, inwardly a demon." You know it, surely.' 'I only know the phrase.' 'That is how the rose got the name Buddha-smiling. Lovely flower, but terribly thorny.' [auto-translated]”
Books that mention Poppies (1)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami: “I finished The Miner, and now I'm on Poppies.”