Tokyo. Tuttle. 2018. Black and white line drawings, 253pp. Paperback. "Japanese Folktales is Yei Theodora Ozaki's classic collection of twenty-two traditional Japanese stories. The book introduces the reader to the rich world of the Japanese imagination, a world of ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings; kindly animals..... More
United States. University of Hawaii Press. 2010. Black and white illustrations, viii + 165 pages, index, paperback. Pierre Loti's novel "Madame Chrysantheme" (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in..... More
New York. Kodansha. 2012. Reprint. Translated by Charles S. Terry. Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer. 970pp, 21.7 x 16cm. Hardback in dustjacket. "The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of..... More
