London. Paul Elek. 1979. Endpaper maps, 315pp, sources, hardback copy, dustjacket a little sunned and worn with closed tears head of spine, good copy. "This ambitious volume fulfils an aim never before accomplished on such as scale. It brings together a selection of Oriental poetry in English translation, ranging over..... More

Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 1978. Second paperback printing. Volume II only. xiii + 395-807pp, appendix, bibliography, index, spine sunned, corners bumped, otherwise a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 213269. More

Boston and New York. The Westgate Press. 1930. First Edition. Tipped in black and white portrait frontispiece illustration and five facsimiles with captioned tissue-guards, (viii) +112 pages, 22.5 x 14 cm, pearl grey decorative boards, figured silk spine with paper label lettered in black, ornaments printed in red, uncut edges..... More

Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1982. Reprint. xv +173pp, glossary, finding list for poems, index, paperback, shelf worn covers, otherwise a very good copy. "The book's five central chapters are devoted to the major court poets and their work; other chapters deal with the forms, assumptions, and themes of court poetry..... More

Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1935. Translated by Arthur Waley. Complete in 2 volumes. 1135pp, list of important persons, genealogical tables. Two volumes in blue cloth presented in original slipcase. Browning along hinges, one preliminary blank leaf removed from volume II, spines discoloured, title on spines barely legible, little light soiling cloth..... More

Tokyo. Kodansha International. 1996. 205pp, card wrappers little foxed and creased. Proof copy. "A group of Mexicans sit in the desert, gazing up at the image of their new saint--a seductive woman with a smile like Betty Boop's--projected onto an outdoor screen. The woman is Marie Kuraki, recruited to act..... More

Paris. Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Japonaises. 2006. 576pp, index, text in French and English with Japanese titles, a very good paperback copy. Japanese classical works (both in romanized and vernacular form) arranged alphabetically, followed by annotation either in French or English. From the Bibliothèque de l'Institut des..... More

New York. Palgrave. 2001. Black and white illustrations, xiv + 234pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket with few spots of foxing on reverse, very good hardback copy. A unique collection of essays that compares strikingly similar women writers of medieval Europe and Heian Japan. This study not only provides essential information on..... More

Tokyo. Tuttle. 1971. Translated by Donald Keene. x + 183pp. Spine somewhat sunned, lower paperback cover little bumped, overall a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 214143. More

Boston and New York. Houghton & Mifflin Company. 1922. xii + 335 pages; original maroon cloth with paper title label on the spine, rear endpapers browned, else a very good firm copy of the first edition. From a limited edition of 200 copies. Offers a ten page summary of Lafcadio..... More

London. George Allen & Unwin. 1974. Translated and edited by Leon M. Zolbrod. Black and white map and illustrations, 280pp, notes, appendices, bibliography, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, endpapers little browned, spine sunned, a very good hardback copy. "A collection of nine beautifully wrought tales of the supernatural, Ugetsu..... More