A careful selection of stories from some of the most popular Japanese narrators of the twentieth century. These stories, in their origins, supposed a great scandal for the society of the time and that, with the passage of time, they have become obligatory readings for all those interested not only in oriental literature, but simply in good literature. A Japanese who discovers that Westerners are not so different from them, the reflections of a man struggling to overcome the murder of his family, the adventures of one of the most peculiar thieves of the Edo period, a race for Syracuse in which he is at stake a life, a duel between magic and science, the story of how sushi can change a man's life or the realization that the perception we have of the values ​​and honor code of samurai is not always correct are just some examples of the stories that we will find throughout the book. Twelve unpublished miniatures, translated directly from Japanese and that make up a book that will be a great discovery for the Western reader.