Tales of Moonlight and Rain

Ueda Akinari and Edited and Translated by Anthony Chambers

Paper, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13913-7
$22.50 / £13.00

December, 2006
Cloth, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13912-0
$30.00 / £17.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Tales of Moonlight and Rain

Preface

Book One

Shiramine

The Chrysanthemum Vow

Book Two

The Reed-Choked House

The Carp of My Dreams

Book Three

The Owl of the Three Jewels

The Kibitsu Caldron

Book Four

A Serpent's Lust

Book Five

The Blue Hood

On Poverty and Wealth

Bibliography

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Fiction

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

Ueda Akinari (1734-1809), one of the great writers of Japanese fiction, was also a scholar, poet, physician, and tea master. Anthony H. Chambers is a professor of Japanese literature and literary translation at Arizona State University. He has translated many works of Japanese literature, both classical and modern, and is the author of The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction.

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