Tales of the Tokugawa. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'iwa Inari
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1917.
Octavo, 286 pages with a colour woodblock frontispiece plus a folding map.
Cream cloth lightly marked; front flyleaf slightly marked; two small ownership stamps; an excellent copy.
The lengthy and informative preface states that this story is presented 'not so much because of the incidents involved and the peculiar relation to a phase of Nipponese mentality, as from the fact that it contains all of the machinery of the Nipponese ghost story.... [T]he vengeful power of the ghost acts through entirely natural means. The characters involved suffer through their own delusions aroused by conscience'.
Item #70323
Price (AUD):
$110.00