To select stories for the anthology of classic Japanese sci-fi I'm editing for MIT Press, I started reading this 1971 collection of pre-WWII short stories.
I began with The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965). It's about an old man who travels around Japan with a brocade portrait in which, due to strange events, his brother is trapped along with his brother's true love.
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