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Pagoda, Skull & Samurai
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Koda Rohan (1867-1947) was born in Tokyo. Although he was an avid
reader in his youth, his family's financial circumstances did not allow him
a formal higher education. In 1884, he began working as a telegrapher in
Hokkaido, but drawn to the bustling Japanese literary world in Tokyo, he
left the job after three years to return to the capital. An introduction to the
works of Ihara Saikaku and others launched a literary career that would
span six decades. His early works were idealistic and then realistic
fiction. Later, scholarly treatises on Japanese and Chinese classics earned
him a Ph.D in literature from Kyoto Imperial University.
Chieko Irie Mulhern, former Professor of Japanese and Comparative
Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, lives in Tokyo
where she leads a busy life as a writer and speaker. She is the translator
of Pagoda, Skull, and Samurai: Three Stories by Koda Rohan (1985)
and the author of an historical novel, Amethyst Ring (Aoi suisho, 1985).
More recently, she edited
Heroic with Grace
(1991), a book on
legendary women in Japanese history, and authored
Japanese Women
Writers (1994), which looks at the appeal of historical fiction set in Japan.
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The stories in this book were originally published in 1982 in typescript
form by the Cornell China-Japan Program as one of its East Asia Papers.
Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd,
with editorial offices at 364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon,
Vermont 05759 and 61 Tai Seng Avenue, #02-12 Singapore 534167.
Copyright in Japan, 1985 by Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc.
First Tuttle edition, 1985
All rights reserved.
ISBN 978-1-4629-0324-5 (ebook)
Printed in Singapore
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