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Tyler, Royall. (Translator)
Japanese Tales.
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of Publication: 2018
Stock Code: 14277
First thus. Quarto, pp., 368. Frontispiece and seven further colour illustrations, of which four are double-page spreads, and 17 black & white illustrations within the text. Teal cloth covers with wrap-around red, black and silver tree illustration to spine and boards, and silver titles to spine. Decorative royal blue and silver wave pattern endpapers, top edge silver, maroon placemark ribbon. Housed in a royal blue slip case with one plain panel and the decorated with a silver butterfly motif and circle cut-out. Near fine book which is crisp, clean and free from any annotations or marks, just two barely visible pale smudges to upper board. Slipcase is a little sunned to corners and edges, with a few tiny white scuffs. An attractive treasury of Japanese folklore and wisdom translated, edited and introduced by Royall Tyler and beautifully illustrated by artist Yuko Shimizu. First published by Pantheon Books in 1987, this collection of 170 tales introduces a broad tableau of characters: saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers and a vast assortment of deities and demons. The tales are presented as a broad range of themes from ‘Parent and Child’, to ‘Surprises’, ‘Monk Jokes’, and ‘Oddities’; all offer invaluable insights into Japan’s rich cultural heritage.

£150.00