japanese literature in english

The beautiful and the grotesque

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Short stories.

Subjects: Japan, Fiction
Japan, Social life and customs, Fiction
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Translations into English
Notes: Contents: A sprig of wild orange (Introduction), The robbers (Chuto), The dog, Shiro, The handkerchief (Hankachi), The dolls (Hina), Gratitude (Ho’onki), The faith of Wei Sheng (Bisei no shin), The lady, Roku-No-Miya (Rokunomiya no himegime), The kappa, Saig takamori, The greeting (Ojigi), Withered fields (Kareno-sho), Absorbed in letters (Gesaku zanmai), The garden (Niwa), The badger (Mujina), Heresy (Jashumon), A woman’s body. Illustrations by Yuko Shimizu.
Description: 440 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9780871401922
OCLC Number: 449867293
Genre: Fiction
Document Type: Book
Publisher: Liveright Pub. Corp.
Publication Place: New York
English Publication Date: 2010

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