In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories Richard Tames Over-sized book bound in stiff

Over-sized book bound in stiff wraps titled DRAWING BABAR:Early Drafts and Watercolors by Christine Nelson

Ideal for collectors of regional history

Front end page has initials in marker

Bypassing dense academic analysis

In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories Richard Tames Over-sized book bound in stiffThe Danly Ichiyo book is one of those works where the author and subject seem so perfectly matched that the style of each suffuses and inspires the other: Danly as translator and commentator picks up and transforms Ichiyos blend of formal and colloquial language into flowing, strong, modern terms; she, in turn, spreads her wit, her melancholy, her sudden piercing insights to Danly. Jonathan Spence, New Society Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman