What is it?
"In Japan, we sleep on lightly padded mats...in the morning they are put away in a closet by Hosokawa-san."
What are futons? What is a futon?
"rice, miso soup, and grilled fish . . . ("The Adventure of the Henna Gaijin")
What is a typical Japanese breakfast?
Sigerson's native country.
What is Norway?
A treacherous brother, who wants his older sibling to think he is going mad.
Who is Aritomo-san?
A medical doctor who studied Dutch medicine in London, he established his practice in Karuizawa.
Who is Dr. Junichi Watanabe?
Who is Dr. John Watson?
Itoh-sama wears this when receiving Sigerson and Watanabe to her home. "Made of grey silk with a meandering blue and white stream flanked by green shoots and purple irises..."
What is a kimono?
Hosokawa-san leaves a " huge container of this" in front of Sigerson at breakfast and other meals.
What is a tub of butter?
This Asian country would be interested in the "battleship plans" because of rising tensions between itself and Japan.
What is China?
" . . . an imposing man, tall and with a sturdy build . . . he was 55 . . . still maintaining a military set to his spine..," he works for the British Legation.
Who is Colonel Ashworth?
The head magistrate in Karuizawa who is suspicious of Sigerson when the men meet for the first time although he grows to admire Sigerson's detecting skills.
Who is Officer Suzuki?
Who is Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard?
"a weird foreigner"
.....What is a henna gaijin?
Sigerson preferred a different type of " a green liquid called ocha." ("The Case of the Devil's Voice")
What is tea?
This European country is building a Navy designed to battle England's domination of the seas.
. . . What is Germany?
"A middle-aged woman with unruly hair and a greedy feral look on her face. She believes in ghosts and spirits inhabiting Shiraito Falls."
Who is Higashi's wife?
"I must tell every shopkeeper the true story of the maneki neko." Easily fooled, he is taken advantage of by his wife and Ishibashi-san. "Gullible" describes his character.
Who is Akagi, the Japanese shop-keeper?
Who is Jabez Wilson, the gullible man in "The Red-Headed League?"
"statues of cats with one paw up"
. . . What is a maneki-neko
" . . . made from a dried radish . . . It is delicious, but some people find the smell very potent."
What are pickles? What is a takuan?
"This country would potentially face both the British and the Japanese navies in Pacific or European waters."
What is Russia?
She wears a pink kimono to go mushroom hunting with her mother, Sigerson, and Watanabe, and she is embarrassed to wear this particular outfit selected by her mother, who has future plans for her.
Who is Naomi-san, Takada-san's daughter?
" . . . the knots holding the false priest's hands," ("The Adventure of the Henna Gaijin") The "knots" are noticed by Sigerson, and he thinks they are superior to a different type of criminal restaint.
What does Suzuki use to restrain the false monk, who murdered the abbot?
What are handcuffs?
This unusual thief likes fruit and represents 1/3 of good advice with his simian companions. "The Case of Hear No Evil"
...What is a snow monkey or saru?
"The cap ... is almost a brownish-black. Easily confused with those having a brown cap."
What is the poisonous mushroom that killed Dr. Watanabe's wife?
What is a mushroom?
A musicologist, who says is in Japan to study indigenous musical instruments, stays at the Mampei Hotel before he returns home to this country.
What is the United States?
He received a valuable gift, but he did not have the opportunity to use it in his retirement since he was found dead after falling from Cloud Lodge.
. . . Who is Reverend Pearson? ("The Case of Hear No Evil")
". . . an older woman who became widowed. . . she has my best interest in mind." (Dr. Watanabe speaking, "The Adventure of the Henna Gaijin"
Who is Hosokawa-san, Watanabe's housekeeper?
Who is Mrs. Hudson?