Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions, reprinted with permission of the Asia Society from Perspective of Japan, originally published by The Atlantic Monthly, December 1954, for Intercultural Publications, Inc.
Copyright in Japan, 1954 by the Asia Society, N.Y.
Yasushi Inoue, The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The Full Moon, translated by Leon Picon
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4629-0216-3
First published, 2004
First Tuttle edition, 1974
Originally published under ISBN-10: 0-8048-1141-5; ISBN-13: 978-0-8048-1141-5
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