THE WILLOW PATTERN / THE MARTIN TEE SUMMER IN KIRBLA (NOVEL) _ ROBERT VAN GULIK / KUMARI ANTON VAIM #WillowPattern #GongAn #RobertVanGulik #KumariVaim #MartinTeeSuviKirblas #KumariImedemaa #EndelLeppFashionHouse #TeeExcavatorMoment #MartinTeeFanClub #ErioperatsioonWegebau #VisitKyrbla #GentlemensFloralCabinet #GentlemenFromEstonia #Meestemoemuuseum #MeMoMu #MEEZ042026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Willow_Pattern_(novel) The Willow Pattern is a gong'an detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang dynasty ). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee ( Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700. As the author says in a postscript, the use of the Willow Pattern as a motif in the book was a conscious anach...
