Yone Noguchi: 2 books

Yone Noguchi's delightful, groundbreaking essays of the 1920s and 1930s, previously available only in hard-to-obtain periodicals, are collected here for the first time in this Noguchi Project Edition. The 22 essays range across Japanese poetry, No drama, art, autobiography, travel, and international relations. The essays are edited and introduced by Edward Marx.

"This book, “Lafcadio Hearn in Japan,” is our Japanese appreciation; we observed him under many different shades, but our appreciation of his art, and also of him as a man—unique in character doubtless, sincere even to a fault,—and as a professor in our Imperial University, is uniform, I think,...