About the book: 2024 / The collection "Moon over the Mountain" includes nine stories in which Chinese tales, legends and parables are intertwined with Japanese wisdom and light irony the author himself. Among the heroes of his stories are mythical creatures, great warriors and venerable masters who find themselves in extremely unusual circumstances. A hunter meets a tiger who speaks to him in the voice of his missing friend, a dignitary makes a bull-man his assistant, and a demon, tormented by doubts and remorse, seeks the meaning of life. In Japan, Nakajima’s works are studied in schools, but outside his native country he is almost unknown .Stories are published in Russian for the first time.