Shiga Naoya was a giant of Japanese literature but he is barely known outside Japan. This book is the first study of Shiga to explore in depth his affinities - both aesthetic and philosophic - with the long tradition of Zen art.
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For Japanese readers throughout most of this century, there would have been no need to explain the importance of Shiga Naoya (1883-1971). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dark Night's Passing, Mount Daisen, Shiga Naoya, Francis Mathy, Bird Island, Kobayashi Hideo, Edward Seidensticker, Jackson Benson, Makoto Ueda, Tayama Katai, The Dreamer, Big Two-Hearted River, East Asian, Edward Fowler, Zen Buddhism, Aoyama Cemetery, Far Eastern, Han's Crime, New Year New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
For Japanese readers throughout most of this century, there would have been no need to explain the importance of Shiga Naoya (1883-1971). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dark Night's Passing, Mount Daisen, Shiga Naoya, Francis Mathy, Bird Island, Kobayashi Hideo, Edward Seidensticker, Jackson Benson, Makoto Ueda, Tayama Katai, The Dreamer, Big Two-Hearted River, East Asian, Edward Fowler, Zen Buddhism, Aoyama Cemetery, Far Eastern, Han's Crime, New Year New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Shiga Hero by William F. Sibley on 5 pages
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway on 4 pages
- Literary and Art Theories in Japan (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) by Makoto Ueda in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth on page 51, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- What Is Art? (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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