• In-person and online events with the translator, paired with American writers in this genre. A MONKEY tour is scheduled for spring 2024 (dates TBC): New York, Boston, Providence, Pittsburgh. Participants include Hiromi Kawakami, author of Dragon Palace; David Boyd, translator of Takaoka’s Travels; Ted Goossen, translator of Dragon Palace; Motoyuki Shibata, founder of MONKEY
  
• Co-op available.
• National print campaign – Galleys/e-galleys sent to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Japan Times, Kyoto Journal, Japan Forward, Nippon, Nikkei Asian Review, LA Times, and other national and fiction and Japan-interest media and reviewer.
• Podcast interviews with book-related podcasts such as Books on Asia, Asian Review of Books.
• Promotion through the translator's website and social media channels: https://monkeymagazine.org/
• Special outreach for reviews and interviews with the translator to English-language Japanese media including NHK, The Japan Times, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan Today and more.

Winner of the Yomiuri Prize and recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation.

Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa—Japan’s Italo Calvino—in this fantastical tale of a Japanese prince who encounters both beauty and danger on a pilgrimage to India.

A fantasy set in the ninth century, Takaoka’s Travels recounts the adventures of a Japanese prince-turned-monk on a pilgrimage to India. As Prince Takaoka and his companions pass through faraway lands, the rules of the ordinary world are upended, and they find curiosities and miracles wherever they go. The travelers encounter strange creatures--a white ape who guards a harem of bird-women, beasts who feed on dreams, a dog-headed man who can see hundreds of years into the future. On the high seas, their ship is boarded by ghostly pirates and driven back by supernatural winds, and still they push on. At every turn, Prince Takaoka is drawn to the beauty around him, whether it takes the form of a perfectly shaped pearl or a giant blood-red flower, but such beauty proves to be extremely dangerous. Seductive and mysterious, offering high adventure yet deeply human, this is a novel that transcends all expectations.

With an afterword by translator David Boyd.