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The Fox Womanby Kij JohnsonISBN 0312875592 (0-312-87559-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Fudokiby Kij JohnsonISBN 0765303914 (0-7653-0391-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fudoki'Book summary:Enter the world of Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen--who may or may not be a figment of the imagination of an aging empress who is embarking on the last journey of her life, setting aside the trappings of court life and reminiscing on the paths that lead her to death.[via]
For she is a being who started her journey on the kami, the spirit road, as a humble tortoiseshell feline. Her family was destroyed by a fire that decimated most of the Imperial city, and this loss renders her taleless, the only one left alive to pass on such stories as The Cat Born the Year the Star Fell, The Cat with a Litter of Ten, and The Fire-Tailed Cat. Without her fudoki--self and soul and home and shrine--she alone cannot keep the power of her clan together. And she cannot join another fudoki, because although she might be able to win a place within another clan, to do so would mean that she would cease to be herself.
So a small cat begins an extraordinary journey. Along the way she will attract the attention of old and ancient powers. Gods who are curious about this creature newly come to Japan's shores, and who choose to give the tortoiseshell a human shape. 
Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernaturalby Stephen Addiss, Jay GatesISBN 0807611263 (0-8076-1126-3)
Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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Kwaidanby Lafcadio HearnISBN 1410215415 (1-4102-1541-5)
Softcover, Univ Pr of the Pacific
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kwaidan'Book summary:"Kwaidan" means "weird tales." Lafcadio Hearn has taken kwaidan and written some amazing, hair-raising tales of long ago--delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches of a world unreal, but with a haunting sense of spiritual reality. It is a unique collection of haunting Japanese supernatural stories written by a Westerner who adopted Japan as his homeland. [via]
Kwaidan; Stories and Studies of Strange Thingsby Lafcadio HearnISBN 0486219011 (0-486-21901-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Kwaiden Vol. 1: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Writings on Japan by Lafeadio Hearnby Lafeadio HearnISBN 4925080326 (4-925080-32-6)
Hardcover, RoutledgeCurzon
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Ruby Slippers, Golden Tearsby Ellen Datlow, Terri WindlingISBN 0380778726 (0-380-77872-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears'Book summary:The third installment in a popular series presents contemporary retellings of such fairy tales as ""Hansel and Gretel,"" ""Beauty and the Beast,"" and ""The Little Match Girl"" by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Gahan Wilson, and Jane Yolen. 10,000 first printing. [via]
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tearsby Not AvailableISBN 0809571501 (0-8095-7150-1)
Softcover, Prime Books
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The Sandman: The Wakeby Neil Gaiman, Yoshitaka AmanoISBN 156389629X (1-56389-629-X)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman: The Wake'Book summary:Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke. At the same time, while preparing for the Sandman 10th anniversary, he met Yoshitaka Amano, his artist for the 11th Sandman book. Amano is the famed designer of the Final Fantasy game series. The product of Gaiman's immersion in Japanese art, culture, and history, Sandman: Dream Hunters is a classic Japanese tale (adapted from "The Fox, the Monk, and the Mikado of All Night's Dreaming") that he has subtly morphed into his Sandman universe.
Like most fables, the story begins with a wager between two jealous animals, a fox and a badger: which of them can drive a young monk from his solitary temple? The winner will make the temple into a new fox or badger home. But as the fox adopts the form of a woman to woo the monk from his hermitage, she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, in far away Kyoto, the wealthy Master of Yin-Yang, the onmyoji, is plagued by his fears and seeks tranquility in his command of sorcery. He learns of the monk and his inner peace; he dispatches demons to plague the monk in his dreams and eventually kill him to bring his peace to the onmyoji. The fox overhears the demons on their way to the monk and begins her struggle to save the man whom at first she so envied.
Dream Hunters is a beautiful package. From the ink-brush painted endpapers to the luminous page layouts--including Amano's gate-fold painting of Morpheus in a sea of reds, oranges, and violets--this book has been crafted for a sensuous reading experience. Gaiman has developed as a prose stylist in the last several years with novels and stories such as Neverwhere and Stardust, and his narrative rings with a sense of timelessness and magic that gently sustains this adult fairy tale. The only disappointment here is that the book is so brief. One could imagine this creative team being even better suited to a longer story of more epic proportions. On the final page of Dream Hunters, in fact, Amano suggest that he will collaborate further with Mr. Gaiman in the future. Readers of Dream Hunters will hope that Amano's dream comes true. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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