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In Sarah Sheard's celebrated novel Almost Japanese, a young girl's obsession with a famous Japanese musician blossoms into personal transformation. In spare, lyrical prose, Sheard documents Emma's discovery of her new next door neighbour, a dazzling Japanese symphony conductor. Things Japanese soon begin to transform Emma's world. Several years later, she must journey to Japan on a private pilgrimage to connect to the source of her obsession.

Полный вариант заголовка: «A true and almost incredible report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good ship called the Assention in Cambaya, the farthest part of the East Indies) travelled by land through many unknowne kingdomes, and great cities : with a particular description of all those kingdomes, cities, and people : as alson a relation of their commodities and manner of traffique, and at what seasons of the year they are most in vse. faithfully related : with a discovery of a great Emperour called the Great Mogoll, a prince not till now knowne to our English nation / by captaine Robert Coverte».

This is a collection of Japanese fairy tales translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki based on a version written in Japanese by Sadanami Sanjin. According to Ozaki, “These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.” Ozaki freely added to and changed the original stories for color and background.1.0