The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories 
Subtitle: 1929-1961
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: December 1985
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780870117398
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese Prose; Fiction; Translations into English; Short stories, Japanese; Asian - General; 20th century; Japan; Japanese fiction; Social life and customs
First sentence: Seventy-seven-year-old Taniki Kuchisuke is especially fond of me.