Enchi

 I found this novel, Masks, by Fumiko Enchi, at B's house. It seems typical of Japanese novels to use Japanese high culture as a metaphorical system to weave an incestuous plot. Here is it No drama and Tales of the Genji.  Murakami, who seems an un-Japanese type of writer, does this in Kafka on the Shore. Kawabata does it too, in Beauty and Sadness, where he uses the tea ceremony.  

There are two generations. A creepy woman of the older generation sets in motion a plot in which the younger generation is manipulated. It seems ripe for a structuralist analysis.