Inoue, Lou-lan and Other Stories (1981)

Yasushi Inoue.
Lou-lan and Other Stories.
Translated by James T. Araki and Edward Seidensticker.
Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1979, 1981.

Book Information : Amazon.com; Internet Archive; Goodreads.

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Author Information :

• Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991), Wikipedia English.
• 井上靖 (1907–1991), Wikipedia Japan.
  (Japanese Wikipedia pages for Japanese authors are far more detailed than the corresponding English Wikipedia one.)
• Yasushi Inoue Books in English, Internet Archive.
• Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards), Wikipedia English.
• 日本文学 [Japanese Literature], Wikipedia Japan.
• 日本の近現代文学史 [History of modern Japanese literature], Wikipedia Japan.

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Contents of Lou-lan and Other Stories :

1. "Lou-lan" [1959], translated by Edward Seidensticker.
   • Loulan Kingdom.
   • Tarim Basin.
2. "The Sage," translated by James T. Araki.
   • Issyk-Kul, eastern Kyrgyzstan.
3. "Princess Yung-t'ai's Necklace," translated by Edward Seidensticker.
   • Princess Yongtai (685 – 701).
4. "The Opaline Cup," translated by James T. Araki.
   • Emperor Ankan (466 – 536) and Princess Kasuga no Yamada (? – d. 539).
   • The Shōsō-in of Emperor Shōmu (701 – 756).
   • Furuichi Kofun Cluster.
5. "The Rhododendrons," translated by Edward Seidensticker.
   • "The Rhododendrons of Hira" was included in:
     The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Volume 2: 1945 to the Present, Edited by J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel, Columbia University Press, 2007 (pages 128-148).
     [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
     and also in:
     The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Abridged, Edited by J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel, Columbia University Press, 2011 (pages 542-562).
     [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
6. "Passage to Fudaraku," translated by James T. Araki.
   • 補陀落渡海 [Fudaraku Crossing the Sea], Wikipedia Japan
     (article explains the religious and cultural background and history of the practice).
   • "Passage to Fudaraku" was included in:
     The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, Edited by Theodore W. Goossen, Oxford University Press, 1997, 2010.
     [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, 1997; Amazon.com, 2010.]
     My post for the Oxford anthology is here.

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