Japan's forgotten masterpieces, in new English translations.
Masked swordsmen on mountain roads, dog-spirit curses, a forensic professor's poisoned mysteries. From the oldest chronicle of the gods to the golden age of popular fiction, in new translations, complete and unabridged.
These are writers Japan has loved for a century and English has almost never met: Kyōka, Enchō, Kidō, Minakata, Kunieda. Each story here is a complete, unabridged translation, many of them for the first time.
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