Shelfmark
Id7.4.02
Author
Uniform title
[Sayonara. Japanese]
Title
Sayonara / John Paris [and] Nagaharu Wakayanagi.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Tōkyō : Kyōbunsha, Taishō 13 [1924].
Physical description
688 p. ; 20 cm
Language
Translated into Japanese from English.
Note
Publisher's blue cloth binding; title, author and Japanese characters stamped in gold on upper cover; title, publisher, and Japanese characters stamped in gold on spine.
Note
Title, author, and publication information romanized; text in Japanese alphabet.
Note
Romanized date of printing (15 May 1924) and date of publication (18 May 1924).
Note
Protagonist Dick Aylmer comes to Japan as a Christian missionary just after WW1. He views with distaste how so many foreigners, including the bishop, seem completely aloof in their view of the Japanese. He is convinced he will make the effort to understand Japan and become part of its true community. He later decides to marry a Japanese woman and settle down in a countryside village.
Binding
Without dust-jacket; housed in original paper slipcase, with Japanese characters, title, and publisher on printed label on spine, and pictorial cover.
Genre/Form
Novels.
Added entry--name
Paris, John, 1889 - 1976 pseud.
Added entry--name
Wakayanagi, Nagaharu translator.
Added entry--name
Kyōbunsha publisher.
Added entry--place
Japan Toyko.
Language code
jap eng
Identifier
B43592