Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda AkinariMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Some great stories, although I'm sure 98% of the symbolism/references/allusions were lost on me. Plenty of endnotes and explanations before each story, but it was still a lot.
I ended up just reading the stories through, and then, after each story, going back to its intro to read more about its context etc. I just enjoyed reading them as stories by themselves first, and then seeing what all I had been missing.
Some of them were also pretty scary, and plenty of references to Chinese/Japanese myths and Tale of Genji.
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