Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Kakizaki Hakyo, Bronzino and Watanabe Kazan. Essays and stories from Hearn's first years in Japan - his students in Kyushu, a stone Buddha, jiujutsu as a philosophy of yielding, two lovers on a railway line, and a former student going off to the Sino-Japanese war. Written while he was still learning the country rather than explaining it. This edition is bound with 57 plates of paintings, among them works by Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai and Bronzino, dating from 1300 to 1893.