Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers, as well as a historical introduction by Professor Keene. Includes: “Growing Up” by Ichiyo, a lyrical story of pre-adolescence in the 90s; Natsume’s story of “Botchan,” an ill-starred and ineffectual Huck Finn; Nagai’s “The Sumida River”; Kokomitsu’s Kafkaesque “Time”; Kawabata’s “The Mole”; “Firefly Hunt”; a glimpse into Tanizaki’s masterpiece “Thin Snow”; and the postwar work of such writers as Dazai and Mishima.
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I bought this book for "The Cannery Boat", but I was disappointed because it only includes a portion of a chapter of that story.
On the other hand, I loved every story in the book. And it spurred me to not only read the full versions of a few of the stories ("Botchan"), but finally convinced me to finally learn Japanese to be able to read this stuff in the original.
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It would be hard to defend on purely literary grounds the writings of the years immediately following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, but in the books of anecdotes and curiosities which were the best-sellers of the day, we find many fascinating glimpses into the life of the Japan which was just emerging. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noodle seller, hundred yen, reverend priest, paper shop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hell Screen, Imado Bridge, New Year, Lord of Horikawa, Meiji Restoration, Midori of the Daikokuya, Asakusa Park, Five Streets, Kannon Temple, Natsume Sóseki, The Misty Night, Ueno Park, West Mouth, Corporal Tachibana, Echo Peak, Shiga Naoya New!
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It would be hard to defend on purely literary grounds the writings of the years immediately following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, but in the books of anecdotes and curiosities which were the best-sellers of the day, we find many fascinating glimpses into the life of the Japan which was just emerging. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noodle seller, hundred yen, reverend priest, paper shop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hell Screen, Imado Bridge, New Year, Lord of Horikawa, Meiji Restoration, Midori of the Daikokuya, Asakusa Park, Five Streets, Kannon Temple, Natsume Sóseki, The Misty Night, Ueno Park, West Mouth, Corporal Tachibana, Echo Peak, Shiga Naoya New!
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- The Cannery Boat and Other Japanese Short Stories. by Takiji Kobayashi in Front Matter, page 333, and Back Matter
- Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai on page 398, and Back Matter
- An adopted husband by Shimei, pseud. Futabatei in Back Matter
- Tangled Hair: Love Poems of Yosano Okiko by Yosano Akiko in Back Matter
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- Dawn to the West: Poetry, Drama, Criticism (vol. 2) by Donald Keene on 10 pages
- Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook by Chieko I. Mulhern on 4 pages
- Modern Japan: A Social and Political History (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by Elise K. Tipton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Subversive Self in Modern Chinese Literature: The Creation Society's Reinvention of the Japanese Shishosetsu (Comparative Perspectives on Modern Asia) by Christopher Keaveney in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha by Lesley Downer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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