Izumi Kyoka Kinenkan Museum

This guide to the Izumi Kyoka Kinenkan Museum in Kanazawa turns on a furious voice heard past midnight in a Tokyo room in April 1903: the novelist Ozaki Koyo, confronting the student he had trained as a boy, Izumi Kyoka, over a geisha named Suzu that Kyoka had bought out of her contract and moved in with. It follows the strange echo in that name, since Kyoka's own mother, who died when he was nine, was also called Suzu, and the grief that runs through his fiction. The museum stands on the plot in Kanazawa where Kyoka was born, and inside sit his manuscripts alongside a fog-lit diorama recreating his ghost story The Holy Man of Mount Koya.