ARAI YOSHIMUNE (Utawaga Yoshimune II, known as), ADAM (Jules). In Japan. The public storytellers. Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, Meiji 32 (1899). In-8, soft Japanese binding, [32] p., 14 coloured woodblock prints on crepe paper. Uncommon work published by the great Japanese publisher Takejiro Hasegawa, who published, among others, the famous series of prints depicting night scenes, which benefited from the same illustrator. The charming little book Les raconteurs publics was published in French in Japan at a time when Japanese art so inspired Western artists, particularly French artists, that the word Japonisme was coined to describe this influence.