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Tôkichi Kuginuki. Tôkichi Kuginuki was created by “Fubo Hayashi,” the pseudonym of the Japanese author Hasegawa Kaitarô (Tange Sazen), and appeared in a series of stories in Tantei Bungei in 1925.

“Nail Puller” Tôkichi is a hard-bitten and merciless samurai detective active in Edo at some point during the Edo period (1601-1867).

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