Author: SACKHEIM, ERIC (TRANSLATOR)
Title: The Silent Firefly: Japanese Songs of Love and Other Things
Description: Tokyo :Kodansha, 1963.. ffirst edition of 1963 fifth printing 1971. Kitao Masami (illustrator) 204 French folded pages, printed Japanese paper endpapers, a map of Japan as frontispiece. Notes. 12,5 x 19 cm.. HARDCOVER: (Orig. hlf cloth with carton boards. VERY GOOD COPY in VERY GOOD slipcase. ) ¶ This is a collection of short, 26-syllable Japanese poems, translated by Eric Sackheim, and illustrated with color woodcuts taken from a 1795 book.

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