travelingDetective-MitaraiKiyoshi
I always think reading detective/crime/adventure novels is a great way to travel around the world. Those stories, especially the decent ones, usually give you a pretty good glimpse on the local social norms,
legal proceedings, physical and cultural landscapes. If it is a series with a constant detective, then she/he/they is almost like a familiar tour guide in the foreign lands.
It is not unusual to mark the places you have traveled to on a world map, so why not do something similar with the books and the characters? Maybe some day I would visit those sites in the real world. (I did with some of them.)
However, with the sheer amount of the good detective stories in mind, I am aware that if I want to be comprehensive, I would not even be able to finish the data curation step. So this time, I started with only one detective, Mitarai Kiyoshi created by Soji Shimada 島田
荘司 .
A few more notes:
- The bibliography of this map is sourced from the Japanese wiki Mitarai Kiyoshi worklist page Many works from the Detective Mitarai series have not been introduced to English audience (yet), so I took the liberty to translate their titles. Some titles are omitted in the map because I did not manage to find approximate location info. If you know about those titles, please feel free to let me know. :)
- The map is plotted with Python
foliumlibrary. The longitude and latitude coordinates are generated viageopandas Nominatim.