By Hiroshi Naito,Masahiko Gaetz
Rich in style, Legends of Japan comprises stories of the supernatural, magic, and deities, in addition to stories of romance and intrigue. The vividness and aesthetic charm of those tales is more advantageous by way of twenty-two woodblock prints from the studio of recent eastern illustrator Masahiko Nishin.
The stories are drawn from jap masterpieces of the Heian (794-1185) and Kamakura (1192-1333) classes. the sooner and major resource is 31-volume Konjaku Monogatari, a set of stories of jap, chinese language and Indian beginning. the opposite resource is the miscellany Tsurezure Gusa, by way of Kento Yoshida, a monk of noble start who was once good versed in eastern and chinese language literature. A reader's satisfaction, those little books distills the colour and style, the knowledge and humor of 2 nice treasuries of classical Asian literature.
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