This first full length critical biography of one of the most significant figures in Japanese Studies in the last hundred years is based on an earlier work publi

Urashima Tarō is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who in a typical modern version is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a turtle, and c

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi