The Knight and the Princess and Other Writings

A modern knight sets out to rescue a princess; a painter remembers her great coil of hair and the fashions of old Kyoto and Tokyo; a philosopher asks what makes rowing and rugby beautiful.

This anthology gathers twenty-seven short works in contrasting voices: Makino Shin'ichi's playful fables, Uemura Shōen's essays on painting and dress, Nakai Masakazu on the aesthetics of sport, Uchida Roan's recollections, and twenty-one poems by the Okinawan poet Sueyoshi Anji.

A new English translation from the Japanese. AI-assisted translation, prepared and edited by Valentin Sarić.