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Japanese Short Stories

Thirty three stories from the twelfth to the twentieth century. This collection of the finest of Japan’s stories includes ‘In a Grove’, the famous story of a medieval rape-murder told from numerous conflicting testimonies, and ‘Patriotism’, Yukio Mishima’s graphically powerful depiction of a soldier’s hara-kiri. There are beautifully moving stories from Nobel prize- winners Kawabata and Oe, mini masterpieces of lust and cruelty from Kono and Tanizaki, murder mysteries from Kobo Abe and Matsumoto, and stories of the utmost delicacy, lyrical sensuousness, heart breaking sadness and nobility of spirit from Dazai, Kafu, Yokomitsu, Higuchi and many other fascinating writers.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 1017
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2000
• Lilac Cloth Hardback, 445 pp
• Illustrated by Yukki Yaura
• Size 245 x 160mm, 1.4kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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