70 miniature short stories that Kawabata wrote between 1923 and 1972, the only item with speculative content is 'Immortality', written in 1963.
This collection first appeared in English in July 1988, published by North Point Press.
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- Only the single work of speculative fiction in this collection, 'Immortality', has been indexed along with the Translators' Notes.
- All translations for this collection are credited to Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman; the translation for 'Immortality' is credited to Holman.
- First printing of the 2006 Tuttle edition.
- Price in Japanese Yen.
