Shank's Mare
    by Samuel L. Leiter     Anyone even slightly familiar with premodern Japanese literature should recognize the words "shank's mare," which form part of A Shank's Mare's Tour of the TÅkaidÅ, the English title for Jippensha Ikku's TÅkaidÅchÅ« Hizakurige, a beloved picaresque novel of the early nineteenth century. If their familiarity with that […] The post Shank’s Mare a…