Stock ID #130089 The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'iwa Inari. JAMES S. DE BENNEVILLE.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'iwa Inari.

The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'iwa Inari.

Philadelphia. Lippincott. 1917. Stock ID #130089

Folding map, colour frontis, 286pp, appendices, grey cloth-covered boards trifle marked, protective dustjacket, octavo, small bookseller's label front pastedown, a good, generally clean copy.

A reproduction of Yotsuya Kwaidan told by the famous story-teller Shunkintei Ryuo. The story is an example of a 'true' Japanese ghost story, and depicts life in Edo among a class of officials who risked heads, or rather bellies, in the politics of the day and the struggle to obtain position, which meant power, in the palace clique.

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