Japanese Short Stories

This anthology gathers Japanese short fiction from earlier courtly and medieval pieces through the modern period. Typical authors of the later selections include writers such as Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Kawabata, Dazai, and Mishima, with stories of divided testimony, erotic obsession, suicide, crime, and the pressure of social form. Settings move from historical Japan to the twentieth-century city and the aftermath of war. The volume is a survey of the short story as practised in Japan - lyric compression, moral shock, and unreliable witness - not a novel in fragments or a history of Japanese literature.

28 Stories. 28 stories. 15 illustrations. Two tone purple cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration. Black slipcase printed with red and gilt title.