The New York Review of Books

Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds

- —Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvan­ia

A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales KELLER KIMBROUGH AND HARUO SHIRANE, EDITORS “This volume offers translatio­ns of exciting, important Japanese tales that traverse the other worlds of monstrous and animal beings . . . . . Each story is a polished gem, with generous notes to bring the social, spiritual, and material culture of medieval Japan into view.”

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