Ten Nights' Dreams
Natrsume Soseki, Sankichi Hata, Dopu Shirai
£395.00
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Book Details:
Publisher:Seito Shorin Press
Published Date:30th November -0001
Binding:Hardback
Condition:VeryGood
Notes:1st Thus Seito Shorin Press 1934 Tokyo; no dust jacket as issued; with frontis illustration and book design by noted artist Shigejiro Sano (?? ???, 1900-1987) whose works are held in a number of museums including the Japanese national Museum of Modern Art.; book has Seito Shorin Press label affixed to penultimate page; tissue guard to frontis illustration, no stamps or inscriptions; apart from title page, pages free from foxing; a very clean copy of this very scarce Japanese printed edition of the only short story collection written by Soseki; Sosekii is generally considered Japan's first modern novelist, and his first novel 'I Am A Cat' is the first example of first person feline literature in Japanese fiction ( a genre that is now widely followed)
