Teito Monogatari

Teito Monogatari (帝都物語, lit., The Tale of the Imperial Capital) is the <a href="/facts/Debut_novel/fIsDgT8w">debut novel</a> of Japanese author <a href="/facts/Hiroshi_Aramata/4rmT5B4v">Hiroshi Aramata</a>. It began circulation in the literary magazine Monthly King Novel owned by <a href="/facts/Kadokawa_Shoten/Dz0jyrY5">Kadokawa Shoten</a> in 1983, and was published in 10 volumes over the course of 1985–1987. 
The novel is a romanticized retelling of the 20th-century history of <a href="/facts/Tokyo/GTvuw4ct">Tokyo</a> from an <a href="/facts/Occultist/G59eqens">occultist</a> perspective, and can be regarded as an <a href="/facts/Monogatari/MaWCHpKt">epic</a> work of <a href="/facts/Historical_fiction/fIhoVb6M">historical fiction</a>, <a href="/facts/Dark_fantasy/WKpvSLN9">dark fantasy</a> and <a href="/facts/Science_fiction/d9hE2Lwt">science fiction</a>.
The work is widely recognized as the first mainstream novel to popularize <a href="/facts/Onmy%25C5%258Dd%25C5%258D/jqW0quH0">onmyōdō</a> and <a href="/facts/Feng_shui/pcN3JI2X">feng shui</a> mythology in modern Japanese fiction. It was a bestseller with over 5 millions copies sold in Japan alone. It won the 1987 <a href="/facts/Nihon_SF_Taisho_Award/UoTb3CKD">Nihon SF Taisho Award</a>, inspired several adaptations as well as a long running literary franchise. Likewise its influence can still be felt in many later works.

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