Bøker av Richard Gordon Smith

This luxurious collection brings together 50 ancient tales from Japanese mythology, from historical legends such as ''History of Awoto Fujitsuna'' to magic realist tales such as ''How Masakuni Regained his Sight''. These tales presented in a stunning gift edition with gold cover embossing, full-colour endpaper designs and stencilled page edges.

Japanese literature has seen a recent surge in popularity. This collection of ancient folktales show the origins of its magical realist tradition.

The stories are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries kept by the author during almost nine years in Japan (collecting exhibits for the British Museum) during the latter part of the nineteenth century. In total, there are 57 different ghost stories, telling tales of love and passion, revenge, strange ghosts and eerie gods, mountains, trees and flowers, history, magic, dragons, murder and suicide.