Japanese Ancient Origins

This beautiful edition, a companion to Japanese Myths and Legends, explores the ancient origins of Japanese society and culture. It is a gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the history of Japan from the early Jomon period to the Edo period.

Japan has gripped the imagination of readers with its spiritual and delicate myths, ghost stories, and folktales for many generations, but there is much more to draw our fascination. From the veneration of Mount Fuji to the long periods of isolation from other countries, to the warring kingdoms and the martial rule of the Shogunates, Japan followed its own path until increasing contact with Europeans between the 1500s and 1800s.

Flame Tree Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors, myths, and tales without which the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best, most influential, and most fascinating works into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction and a Glossary of Terms.

AUTHOR: Jackson is the General Editor of The World's Greatest Myths and Legends series, with titles including Myths of Babylon, Indian Myth, Egyptian Myth, Norse Myth, and Polynesian Island Myth. He is also the editor of Myths and Legends and the foreword writer for Celtic Myths and Tales. Other related work includes articles on the Philosophy of Time, Macbeth, A Gothic Chaos, and William Blake's use of mythology in his visionary literature.

This edition is presented as a hardback, deluxe edition; foiled and embossed, with gilded edges.