Tomihiko Morimi

Tomihiko Morimi (森見 登美彦) is a Japanese writer from Nara Prefecture. He graduated from Kyoto University and his works often have Kyoto as the setting.

In July 2018, it was announced that the first two of Morimi's original works to be published in English will be Penguin Highway and The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, both published by Yen Press in 2019.

In 2022, Tower of the Sun and Fox Tales were published in English by Yen Press, while The Tatami Galaxy was published by HarperCollins, who also published The Tatami Time Machine Blues in 2023.

Partial bibliography

 * Tower of the Sun (太陽の塔) (2003)
 * The Tatami Galaxy (四畳半神話大系) (2004)
 * Fox Tales (きつねのはなし) (2006)
 * The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (夜は短し歩けよ乙女) (2006)
 * [New Interpretation] Run, Melos! and Four Other Stories (【新釈】走れメロス、他四篇) (2007)
 * The Eccentric Family (有頂天家族) (2007)
 * Love Letter Techniques (恋文の技術) (2010)
 * Yoiyama Kaleidoscope (宵山万華鏡) (2010)
 * Penguin Highway (ペンギン・ハイウェイ) (2010) Nihon SF Taisho Award winner.
 * The Adventures of a Saintly Slacker (聖なる怠け者の冒険) (2013)
 * The Eccentric Family: The Junior Returns (有頂天家族 二代目の帰朝) (2015)
 * Night Train (夜行) (2016)
 * Tropics (熱帯) (2016)
 * The Tatami Time Machine Blues (四畳半タイムマシンブルース) (2020)
 * The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (シャーロック・ホームズの凱旋) (2024)