Tales of the Tokugawa II: Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) 1921 James S. de Benneville ~kaidan ~traditional Japanese ghost stories
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Title: Tales of the Tokugawa II: Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House)
Author: Retold from the Japanese originals by James S. de Benneville
Description: Boards in green cloth with gilt lettering and traditional bone clasp closures. Light wear to fore-edges of covers. Previous owner's name and non-custom bookplate on front endpapers. Tide marks in margins throughout most of the volume. Includes a detailed fold-out map of pre-Meiji Edo (Tokyo) and a 10-page historical introduction. x, 263, [3] pp.
A retelling of traditional Japanese ghost tales, known as kaidan, by James Seguin de Benneville (1867-1943). He was a graduate of Princeton ('88) and a chemist by profession. He did quite a bit of traveling and lived in Yokohama, Japan from about 1901 to 1917, when he returned to Philadelphia with his Japanese wife and their four children.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Publisher: [The Fukuin Printing Company]
Place: Yokohama
Year: 1921
Keywords: kaidan, Edo Bancho, Bancho Sarayashiki, ghost stories, Japanese, Japan, Tokyo,
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