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The bamboo sword and other samurai tales / Shuhei Fujisawa ; translated by Gavin Frew.
Van Pelt Library PL850.J5242 A2 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fujisawa, Shūhei, 1927-1997.
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Samurai--Fiction.
- Samurai.
- History.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 2005.
- Summary:
- A collection of eight short stories written by the late novelist evoke the essence of life in early 17th-century Japan--the day-to-day happenings of the samurai and townspeople that lived in this "peacetime" era of Japanese history.
- Contents:
- The bamboo sword
- A passing shower
- All for a melon
- Kozuru
- Shinza, the samurai
- Out of luck
- The runaway stallion
- Dancing hands.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Japanese.
- ISBN:
- 4770030053
- OCLC:
- 62134819
- Publisher Number:
- 9784770030054
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