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Modern Japanese stories : an anthology

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notes: Contents: Under reconstruction by Mori Ogai, Order of the White Paulownia by Tokuda Shusei, Hydrangea by Nagai Kafu, Seibei’s gourds by Shiga Naoya, Tattoo by Tanizaki Junichiro, On the conduct of Lord Tadanao by Kikuchi Kan, The camellia by Satomi Ton, Brother and sister by Muro Saisei, The house of a Spanish dog by Sato Haruo, “Autumn Mountain” by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, The handstand by Ogawa Mimei, Letter found in a cement-barrel by Hayama Yoshiki, The charcoal bus by Ibuse Masuji, Machine by Yokomitsu, The moon on the water by Kawabata Yasunari, Nightingale by Ito Einosuke, Morning mist by Nagai Tatsuo, The hateful age by Niwa Fumio, Downtown by Hayashi Fumiko, A man’s life by Hirabayashi Taiko, The idiot by Sakaguchi Ango, Shotgun by Inoue Yasushi, Tiger-Poet by Nakajima Ton, The courtesy call by Dazai Osamu, The priest and his love by Mishima Yukio. Woodcuts by Masakazu Kuwata.
subjects: Short stories, Japanese, Translations into English
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780804812269
OCLC number: 282115916
publisher: Tuttle, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1977, 1982, 1989, 1992, 1997, 2005
publication place: Rutland, VT, Boston
english publication date: 1961
document type: Book
description: 512 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
related: UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series