Lady Nijo / Go-Fukakusain no Nijo.

Lady Nijo’s own story – Towazu-gatari: the candid diary of a thirteenth-century Japanese imperial concubine. Translated by Wilfrid Whitehouse & Eizo Yanagisawa.

Rutland, Vt, Tuttle, [1974]. 20 cm. 395 pages. Original softcover. Lower spine with stronger bump and defect. Small brown stain to upper bookblock from page 362 to the end. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

McCullough, Helen Craig.

Tales of Ise – Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-Century Japan. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by Helen Craig McCullough.

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1968. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 277 pages. Original Hardcover (yellow ochre cloth with title in gilt lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and an interesting bookplate on front pastedown.

McCullough, William H. & Helen Craig.

A Tale of Flowering Fortunes [‘Eiga monogatari’] – Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by William H. & Helen Craig McCullough.

In two volumes. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1980. 17 cm x 24 cm. Volume I – XV, pages 1 to 428 / Volume II – pages 429 to 910. Illustrated with 19 woodcuts from a 17th century edition and 20 diagrams including plans of the capital and the Imperial Palace and several genealogical charts. Original Hardcover (no dustjackets). Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.