"The Moon and the Dreamer" Author: [Japanese] Natsume Soseki / [Japanese] Dazai Osamu etc. Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

“The description and birth of beauty is like an unfinished dream.”

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One page, the opening chapter of the Japanese fantasy literature series!

A must-read! 24 immortal literary masters tell the oriental tales

From Natsume Soseki, Dazai Osamu, Mishima Yukio, to Izumi Kyoka, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Edogawa Ranpo

A collection of the masterpieces of Japanese literary masters of all generations

From the dynastic stories to the post-war period of the Showa era, it covers myths, ghost stories, and legends:

The oldest myth of Fuso: Kojiki

"Ten Nights of Dreams" is a masterpiece of the Meiji era

The inspiration of Hayao Miyazaki, the "Legend of the Hidden Gods" of a child and a dragon girl, "Longtan Tan"

The most modern rogue in postwar Japan, yet full of classical elegance, "Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom"...

Carefully selected articles, cutting-edge translations, a treasure trove of fantasy literature spanning thousands of years

🦋Editor's Recommendation

★ From the dynasty stories to the post-war period of Showa, spanning thousands of years in Japan, including classic stories of literary masters throughout the ages

One page, the opening chapter of the Japanese fantasy literature series!

"The Moon Sea and the Dream Wanderer" contains a total of 24 bizarre masterpieces, divided by era, starting from the Chronicles of the Age of the Gods, Tales of the Dynasty, and Strange Stories, and ending with the Showa and post-war literary masters.

From the myths of the founding period of the Yamato monarchy and the dynasty stories of the Heian period, to the masters of Ukiyo-soushi such as Ihara Saikaku and Ueda Akinari of Edo town culture; from Izumi Kyoka and Koda Rohan of the Meiji and Taisho periods, to immortal literary masters such as Edogawa Ranpo, Dazai Osamu, and Mishima Yukio of the Showa and postwar periods.

24 dreamers witnessed the "demon moments" of the ancient, Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras.

★ The story of the phantom monster is tortuous, absurd, bizarre, and filled with reality and fantasy

The book describes the fantasy of hundreds of demons, but it reveals the human heart, the world, and true feelings.

Dazai Osamu said: The value of a writer's existence lies in depicting those strange realities that are unknown and difficult to describe in the world.

In the Kojiki, the male and female creator gods confront each other in the world of the living and the underworld; in the Konjaku Monogatarishu, there are many stories about reincarnation and the law of living beings; in Uchida Momoka’s Jien, there are endless wilderness, periodic moons, and when a wall of people with unclear meanings confronts a beast that speaks human language, the concept of “humanity” gradually becomes blurred...

The corpse buried under the cherry tree, the lantern of the girl returning from the underworld, the electric town occupied by cats in the blink of an eye, the all-seeing eye filled with red dogwood... Motojiro Kajii, Ango Sakaguchi, Osamu Dazai, Ranpo Edogawa, Yukio Mishima, Hisasaku Yumeno, they began to explore the inside of the human body, dissecting various parts of the flesh, bringing out a more nihilistic modern fantasy beauty after the fierce conflict.

Phantom monsters, phantom flowers, hallucinations, illusions, illusions, illusions, illusions, illusions, illusions, illusions, illusions, illusions, illusions, birds, all the dreamy emotions disappeared in the mundane world.

★ Describing beauty and breaking conventions: the amazing peak of imagination in fantasy literature provides an inexhaustible source of inspiration for modern and contemporary art

A must-have for literature and art lovers

The gods and demons that frequently appear in popular anime such as "Natsume's Book of Friends" and "Kamisama Kiss" are actually from the oldest mythology in Japan, "Kojiki"...

As the twin peaks of modern fantasy literature, Izumi Kyoka's "Ryutan Tan" brings the legend of the "disappearance of the gods" of a child and a dragon girl, becoming the source of inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki to conquer fans around the world; Tanizaki Junichiro's "The Magician" creates an unknown country for the god Pan on this border line, where the wandering shepherd finally connects here and will never be separated...

★ Translated by a cutting-edge translator × Moonsea's seductive design

A brand new hardcover edition that forever contains the moments of dreams and fantasies

This book is compiled by Wang Zihao, the talented translator of Shibusawa Ryuhiko and Inagaki Ashiho. He searched through the spectrum of Japanese fantasy literature and picked up the gems of Japanese fantasy. The writing style is full of gorgeous coolness.

In terms of visual presentation, designer Xihe cleverly used the elements of the moon, hands and butterflies on the sea, combining modern art symbols with the style of classical woodcut prints, giving it a full sense of design.

Hardcover with square spine, the outer cover is printed on special paper in a spot color, and the inner text is printed on offset paper. It is easy to read, delicate and eye-friendly, and a collection of fine products.

🌊Introduction

“The description and birth of beauty is like an unfinished dream.”

The opening work of the Japanese fantasy literature series. From the myths of the founding period of the Yamato monarchy, the dynasty stories of the Heian period, to the masters of Edo town culture such as Ihara Saikaku and Ueda Akinari; from Izumi Kyoka and Koda Rohan in the Meiji and Taisho periods to Edogawa Ranpo, Dazai Osamu, Mishima Yukio and other 22 immortal writers in the Showa and postwar period; spanning thousands of years in Japan, 24 masterpieces of fantasy literature are newly compiled.

"In those dreamlike landscapes, everything is stained with bright primary colors. The sea and the sky are both as transparent as glass and blue."

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Natsume Soseki enjoys a high status in the history of modern Japanese literature and is known as the "national great writer."

Dazai Osamu is a modern Japanese novelist and a representative writer of postwar roguish literature.

Tanizaki Junichiro, a modern Japanese novelist and one of the main representatives of aesthetic literature, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.

Koda Rohan, a Japanese novelist, was awarded Japan's first Order of Culture.

Izumi Kyoka is a great writer who spanned the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras in Japan. In order to commemorate his literary achievements, Japan has established the "Izumi Kyoka Literature Award".

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Wang Zihao

Born in 1997, she is a translator and interpreter at the National Taiwan Normal University. She lives in Beijing with her cat Maimai.

Douban name: Aku. His translations include "Ryuhiko no Kuni Tanshu", "Devil's Phantom", "Japanese Monster History", and "A Thousand and One Seconds Story".