Table of Contents

Yaoko -- Aihara (Plain of sorrows) -- Ningyao (Doll).

About the Author

Furui Yoshikichi has won the Akutagawa Prize (1971), the Nihon Bungaku Taisho (1980), the Tanizaki Prize (1983), the Kawabata Yasunari Prize (1988), and the Yomiuri Prize (1989).

Donna George Storey is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature, University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

This important author's work has been hard to find in the West, and one is grateful for the translations and accompanying commentaries by Donna George Storey.""--William Ferguson, New York Times Book Review