In the Shade of Spring Leaves - The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories (Paperback, Revised)

The Danly-Ichiyo book is one of those works where the author and subject seem so perfectly matched that the style of each suffuses and inspires the other: Danly as translator and commentator picks up and transforms Ichiyo s blend of formal and colloquial language into flowing, strong, modern terms; she, in turn, spreads her wit, her melancholy, her sudden piercing insights to Danly. Jonathan Spence, New Society"