Grace James

Grace Edith Marion James (1882-1965) was daughter of a British naval officer, born in Tokyo and resident there until age 12, when the family returned to England. Her 1910 volume Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, illustrated by Warwick Goble, included Green Willow, The Flute, Reflections, The Spring Lover and the Autumn Lover, and Momotaro. Her mother, Mrs. T.H. James (1845-1928) translated The Hare of Inaba, Shippeitar?, The Matsuyama Mirror, The Wooden Bowl, and The Tea-Kettle for publication by Hasegawa in the 1880s.