Description

Hardcover bound in publisher’s red cloth and complete with unpriced/unclipped dust-jacket. 72 pages. Story adapted by Sally Fisher from the tale originally written in 9th or 10th century Japan entitled Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter). Text from the translation by Donald Keene. Numerous full page color illustrations reproduced from a late 18th century Edo period illustrated edition in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reprint, third printing. The enchanting tale of a childless woodcutter and his wife who take in an exiled diminutive princess and the ensuing amorous attention she receives from elites of the Royal Court, including the Emperor himself. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, tight and unmarked copy in a complete dust-jacket which shows no tears or chips. Fine in a very good+ dust-jacket.