Excerpt from Japan in Days of Yore In order to do something, however humble, towards disclosing the treasures that lie concealed in hundreds of books which few foreigners are able to read, and fewer still have the leisure to study and to reproduce in another tongue, I have undertaken to write a series of tales bearing on the Japan of the past. The series is to consist of translations, in some cases, paraphrases or adaptations, in others, of well known Japanese stories and biographies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.