This captivating collection features 50 ancient Japanese myths and legends, presented in a luxurious hardback edition with gold embossing and stencilled page edges. Gathered by 19th-century traveler and naturalist Richard Gordon Smith from his diaries, these tales include themes of ghosts, unrequited love, Shinto spirits, samurai culture, and Buddhist ethics. The edition showcases gold embossing on the cover, full-color endpapers, ivory pages, and stencilled edges, making it a beautiful collectible for any mythology enthusiast.
