Glynne Walley is an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Oregon and author of Good Dogs.

The presentation here is excellent, beginning with the faithful reproduction and translation of seemingly every last detail.(The Complete Review) It's an excellent introduction to Bakin's semi-fictional world. Hakkenden has all the hallmarks of a wonderful addition to the stock of Japanese literature available in English.(Tony's Reading List) Glynne Walley's lively translation [of] Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest conveys the witty and colorful prose of the original, producing a faithful and entertaining edition of this important literary classic.(New Books Network) The fantastical elements of "Hakkenden" give it a kinship to those endlessly unspooling fantasy sagas by Robert Jordan or George R.R. Martin.(The Wall Street Journal) An Ill-Considered Jest is, in addition to being an excellent translation and a first-rate work of scholarship, a beautifully illustrated and compulsively readable tome. Walley's translation of Hakkenden will be a game changer for scholars and teachers of premodern Japanese literature, and even this first installment opens exciting possibilities for researchers and students.(Monumenta Nipponica)

• Inaugural VolumeCovers and EndpaperChinese PrefaceJapanese PrefaceTable of ContentsFrontispiecesAdvertisementChapter IChapter IIChapter IIIChapter IVChapter VChapter VIChapter VIIChapter VIIIChapter IXChapter XColophonVolume IICovers and EndpaperChinese PrefaceJapanese PrefaceTable of ContentsFrontispiecesChapter XIChapter XIIChapter XIIIChapter XIV

Glynne Walley is an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Oregon and author of Good Dogs.

The presentation here is excellent, beginning with the faithful reproduction and translation of seemingly every last detail.(The Complete Review) It's an excellent introduction to Bakin's semi-fictional world. Hakkenden has all the hallmarks of a wonderful addition to the stock of Japanese literature available in English.(Tony's Reading List) Glynne Walley's lively translation [of] Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest conveys the witty and colorful prose of the original, producing a faithful and entertaining edition of this important literary classic.(New Books Network) The fantastical elements of "Hakkenden" give it a kinship to those endlessly unspooling fantasy sagas by Robert Jordan or George R.R. Martin.(The Wall Street Journal) An Ill-Considered Jest is, in addition to being an excellent translation and a first-rate work of scholarship, a beautifully illustrated and compulsively readable tome. Walley's translation of Hakkenden will be a game changer for scholars and teachers of premodern Japanese literature, and even this first installment opens exciting possibilities for researchers and students.(Monumenta Nipponica)

• Inaugural VolumeCovers and EndpaperChinese PrefaceJapanese PrefaceTable of ContentsFrontispiecesAdvertisementChapter IChapter IIChapter IIIChapter IVChapter VChapter VIChapter VIIChapter VIIIChapter IXChapter XColophonVolume IICovers and EndpaperChinese PrefaceJapanese PrefaceTable of ContentsFrontispiecesChapter XIChapter XIIChapter XIIIChapter XIV

Glynne Walley is an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Oregon and author of Good Dogs.

The presentation here is excellent, beginning with the faithful reproduction and translation of seemingly every last detail.(The Complete Review) It's an excellent introduction to Bakin's semi-fictional world. Hakkenden has all the hallmarks of a wonderful addition to the stock of Japanese literature available in English.(Tony's Reading List) Glynne Walley's lively translation [of] Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest conveys the witty and colorful prose of the original, producing a faithful and entertaining edition of this important literary classic.(New Books Network) The fantastical elements of "Hakkenden" give it a kinship to those endlessly unspooling fantasy sagas by Robert Jordan or George R.R. Martin.(The Wall Street Journal) An Ill-Considered Jest is, in addition to being an excellent translation and a first-rate work of scholarship, a beautifully illustrated and compulsively readable tome. Walley's translation of Hakkenden will be a game changer for scholars and teachers of premodern Japanese literature, and even this first installment opens exciting possibilities for researchers and students.(Monumenta Nipponica)

• Inaugural VolumeCovers and EndpaperChinese PrefaceJapanese PrefaceTable of ContentsFrontispiecesAdvertisementChapter IChapter IIChapter IIIChapter IVChapter VChapter VIChapter VIIChapter VIIIChapter IXChapter XColophonVolume IICovers and EndpaperChinese PrefaceJapanese PrefaceTable of ContentsFrontispiecesChapter XIChapter XIIChapter XIIIChapter XIV