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Niwa: Two Tales: Matsuri No Ban and Futari No Yakunin

JAPANESE – ENGLISH EDITION

Two tales (Matsuri no Ban & Futari no Yakunin) from the master storyteller Kenji Miyazawa.

Miyazawa is well known for his tales of fantasy but these stories, although they contain an element of the fantastic, are firmly based in reality.

In both stories the characters very often speak colloquially, using language that is outside the province of most language learning text-books. Because of this extra pains have been taken to highlight and explain idiomatic expressions and contractions in speech and, although it is never possible to make a word for word translation from one language to another, all the speech has been translated, as literally as possible, into English.

This Japanese–English edition features:
- Modern Japanese text
- Kanji with furigana readings
- Detailed notes in English

International Giveaway ends - June 30th 2014