Chikuma River sketches

by Shimazaki Toson

$30 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. xxxii, 16 illus. , 206; publisher's tan buckram; edges foxed, text clean, very good in fine dust jacket. Unsurpassed for their intimate portrayals of Japanese provincial life at the turn of the century, Toson's sketches set in the Chikuma River valley are rewarding from whatever approach the reader may choose. Delightful as belles lettres, they are also illuminating and

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