The title of my website means either "hot air and bluster" or "big sack" (a "big furoshiki"). I'll go with both.

The first thing in that furoshiki is my novel, The Path of Dreams. The novel can be read online, downloaded (PDF ebook), or purchased at Lulu.

Past, present, and forthcoming professional writing and translation projects are listed in my bibliography. Otherwise, this website is an receptacle for whatever my otaku obsession du jour happens to be. New essays, reviews, and other assorted blatherings usually show up on my blog first.

The New Era links to a handful of short stories first published in The New Era magazine, and includes a tribute to its wonderful editorial staff. Tokyo South is an autobiographical novel about the two years I spent in Tokyo a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

I've resumed work on The Shore in Twilight ("Tasogare no Kishi, Akatsuki no Sora") and will attempt to post a chapter a week. A rough draft of each chapter usually goes up on Sunday, and a corrected version by the middle of the week.

Shadow of the Moon and A Thousand Leagues of Wind by Fuyumi Ono can be read online or downloaded in text or HTML formats. (The HTML version was configured for PSP but can be viewed in any IE 5.5 or equivalent browser.)

The official TokyoPop translation of Shadow of the Moon (with which I was not involved) can be purchased at Amazon.

Essays is a collection of musings on manga, anime, Japanese culture and history, and religion, including an extensive analysis of Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, and Joseph Smith.

As for who I existentially am, I recommend this insightful article by Jonathan Rauch. As Rauch wisely puts it, "On the Internet, no one knows you're an introvert." As for what I specifically believe, I submit for your consideration this excerpt from American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

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