A review by nadir
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari

informative mysterious reflective
a surprisingly pleasant read! definitely enjoyed chambers' translation more than a couple others, and the introduction n footnotes helped put the stories (and the collection as a whole) in a new light without detracting or distracting from the stories themselves.

ps to anyone (read: my jp lit professor) going on about how these stories "aren't really horror or scary" - yeah they were never meant to be? x