| notes: | Eleven short stories selected chiefly from Aika (“Elegies”) and Juichi no iro-garasu (“Eleven stained-glass segments”). Contents: A forty-year-old man, Despicable bastard, My belongings, Fuda-no-Tsuji, The day before, Incredible voyage, Unzen, Mothers, Retreating figures, The war generation, Old friends. | 
| subjects: | Short stories, Japanese Social life and customs | 
| genre: | Fiction | 
| ISBN: | 9780396086437 | 
| OCLC number: | 11316876 | 
| publisher: | Dodd, Mead, 1985, 1987; New Directions, 1990; Tuttle, 2003 | 
| publication place: | New York; New York; Rutland, VT, Boston | 
| japanese publication date: | 1959 | 
| english publication date: | 1984 | 
| document type: | Book | 
| description: | 165 p. ; 22 cm. | 
Stained glass elegies : stories
Translated by Van C. Gessel