A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely
prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and
fantasy The sage Confucius travels to a kingdom ruled by a
struggling duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by his
consort's desire for pleasure. A naïve servant elopes with his
master's daughter, only to be plunged headlong into a world of
murder and corruption. Exhausted by a lifestyle of never-ending
debauchery, a young prince finds himself in possession of a
dazzling, beguiling mermaid. These three short stories, in a
gorgeous new translation by Bryan Karetnyk, distil the essence of
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's shorter fiction: the co-mingling of Japanese
and Chinese mythologies, the chillingly dark side of desire and the
paper-thin line between the sublime and the depraved.
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