Filled with anecdotes and episodes from modern Japanese cultural history, this is a lively social history of Japanese humour since the 16th century. It attempts to reveal an aspect of the Japanese character largely unknown to the West, and is illustrated with examples from humorous comic prints.
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"... a more earthy but just as worthy successor [to 'The Floating World in Japanese Fiction']." -- Donald Richie, The Japan Times
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Howard Hibbett is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Japanese Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He received his doctorate in Japanese literature from Harvard, taught at the University of California, and has lived in Japan at various times. Among his numerous translations from Japanese are Beauty and Sadness by Kawabata Yasunari and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Diary of a Mad Old Man, The Key, A Portrait of Shunkin, and Quicksand. His original publications include The Floating World in Japanese Fiction, which focuses on the work of Ihara Saikaku and his follower Ejima Kiseki.
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Early in 1997 hardened New York critics expressed a gratifying degree of shock at the gross vaudeville humor of the Tokyo Shock Boys. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Year, Rootless Grass, Jippensha Ikku, Inoue Hisashi, Snow Woman, The Tale of Genji, World War, Banish Sleep, Beat Takeshi, Good Listener, Island of Women, Shikano Buzaemon, Three Teachings, Hiraga Gennai, King Emma, Lafcadio Hearn, Professor Sneeze New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Early in 1997 hardened New York critics expressed a gratifying degree of shock at the gross vaudeville humor of the Tokyo Shock Boys. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Year, Rootless Grass, Jippensha Ikku, Inoue Hisashi, Snow Woman, The Tale of Genji, World War, Banish Sleep, Beat Takeshi, Good Listener, Island of Women, Shikano Buzaemon, Three Teachings, Hiraga Gennai, King Emma, Lafcadio Hearn, Professor Sneeze 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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- World Within Walls by Donald Keene in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Diary of a Mad Old Man by Tanizaki on page 194, and Back Matter
- Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century Japan by Ihara Saikaku on page 63, and page 66
- The Great Mirror of Male Love by Ihara Saikaku on page 68, and page 95
- Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki on page 194, and Back Matter
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- Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes) by Mary Elizabeth Berry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Theodore C. Bestor in Back Matter
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