BLYTH, R.H. — Oriental Humour.

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1968. Fourth printing. "This book will hardly give the reader an accurate idea of the national character or way of thinking of the present-day CChinese, Koreans, and Japanese. The book intends to do something quite different and far more important, to show how certain peoples have seen and seen into the world of man and nature, and to enable us to see what they saw. The purpose of life is to know the purpose of life; the purpose of life is to laugh with the infinite eternal laughter of the gods". (author's preface). Pp.xii/582, colour frontispiece + 26 colour and black & white plates and 6 illustrations in the text, illustrated yellow endpapers. Yellow cloth, dustwrapper slightly faded to spine with minor edge wear but is in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. VG/G+.