Author: BLYTH, R.H.
Title: Japanese Life and Character in Senryu
Description: Japan: The Hokuseido Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 630 pages. Index. "Senryu enable us, as they enabled the Japanese, to understand and forgive others, and, what is vastly more important, to understand and forgive ourselves. Not only the life and character of the Japanese, but our own life and character are to be seen in this book, which is thus not merely a picture, but a mirror. Look well in it!" - from dust jacket. Decorated endpapers. Tissue-protected colour frontisplate. Book clean with light wear. Pencil underlining and marginalia to some pages. Moderate lean to spine. Binding tight. Average wear and soiling to dust jacket which bears a couple of short openings and several coffee drops. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Japanese Life and Character in Senryu Culture Literature History Japan Writing. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: Asia