sentences:  Originally serialized in a Tokyo daily newspaper "Tokyo Asahi" between 20 December 1929 and February 16, 1930, this vibrant novel uses unorthodox, kinetic literary techniques to reflect the raw energy of Asakusa, seen through the eyes of a wandering narrator and the cast of mostly female juvenile delinquents who show him their way of life.The original newspaper serialization was incomplete.The remaining sections were published concurrently in two literary journals, "Reconstruction" ("Kaizō", volume 12, number 9) and "New Currents" ("Shinchō", volume 27, number 9).