The beautiful and the grotesque
By: Ryunosuke Akutagawa ; translated by Takashi Kojima and John McVittie ; edited by John McVittie and Arthur Pell ; illustrations by Yuko Shimizu.
Contributors: Kojima, Takashi.; McVittie, John.; Pell, Arthur R.
Publisher: Liveright; Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780871401922
Subjects: Japanese fiction -- Translations into English; Short stories, Japanese -- Translations into English; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Translations into English; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories.
Notes: Previous edition published under the title Exotic Japanese Stories: the beautiful and the grotesque.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A sprig of wild orange (Introduction); title: The robbers ("Chuto"); title: The dog, Shiro; title: The handkerchief ("Hankechi"); title: The dolls ("Hina"); title: Gratitude ("Hoonki"); title: The faith of Wei Shéng ("Bisei no shin"); title: The lady, Roku-No-Miya ("Rokunomiya; title: __no himegime"); title: The kappa; title: Saig takamori; title: The greeting ("Ojigi"); title: Withered fields ("Kareno-sho"); title: Absorbed in letters ("Gesaku zanmai"); title: The garden ("Niwa"); title: The badger ("Mujina"); title: Heresy ("Jashumon"); title: A woman's body.