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Description

An Oriental classic retold by a Nobel Prize winner, with modern illustrations. An early Helan-period (794-1185) prose work about a supernatural being found by a bamboo cutter and brought up as his daughter. Text is presented in bilingual Japanese-English format alongside original, full-color... read more

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First Sentence

Many years ago there lived a man they called the Old Bamboo Cutter.

Authors & Contributors

Other Contributors:

  1. Yasunari Kawabata (Adapter)
  2. Donald Keene (Translator)
  3. Masayuki Miyata (Artist)
 

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