Contents

Foreword: The Piercing Truths of a Blind Storyteller, by Jack Zipes

Acknowledgments

Introduction, by Adam Kuplowsky

PART I: JAPANESE TALES (1915–1921)

  1    The Tale of the Paper Lantern

  2    The Sad Little Fish

  3    The Scholar’s Head

  4    By a Pond

  5    An Eagle’s Heart

  6    Little Pine

  7    A Spring Night’s Dream

  8    The Martyr

  9    The Death of the Canary

10   The Mad Cat

11   For the Sake of Mankind

12   Two Little Deaths

13   The Narrow Cage

PART II: CHINESE TALES (1921–1923)

14   From “Tales of a Withered Leaf”

15   The Tragedy of the Chick

16   Father Time

17   The Red Flower

Appendix

Easter

Some Pages from My School Days

My Expulsion from Japan

Chukchi Pastoral

Chukchi Elegy

Bibliography