A collection of stories and short stories by contemporary Japanese writers, “new Japanese prose.” It presents with exhaustive completeness the entire prosaic literary map of the Japanese archipelago, works of various genres diverge in three main directions: the classical aesthetics of beauty, “wabi”; traditionalism and postmodernism; the fantastic in life and literature. The authors come from different times and places of birth, came to writing from different professions, occupations, hobbies and different literary preferences, in a word: they are not only samurai, they are Japanese.© tigerishka