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Tales of old Japan / by A.B. Mitford ; with illustrations drawn and cut on wood by Japanese artists.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1883 Redesda
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron, 1837-1916.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Japan.
- Tales.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 383 p. : ill., plates ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Macmillan & Co., 1883.
- Contents:
- The forty-seven rônins
- The loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki
- Kazuma's regenge
- A story of the Qtokodaté of Yedo
- The wonderful adventures of Funakoshi Jiuyémon
- The Eta maiden and lthe Hatamoto
- Fairy tales
- The gost of Sakura
- How Tajima Shumé was tormented by a devil of his own creation
- Concerning certain superstitions
- Japanese Sermons
- Appendices : An account of the harakiri. The marriage ceremony. The birth and rearing of children. Funeral rites.
- Notes:
- Another edition appeared in 1871.
- "The two first of the Tales have already appeared in the Fortnightly review, and two of the Sermons, with a portion of the Appendix...in the...Cornhill magagine."--Preface.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: T.p. stamped: "Received, May 15 1886"
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