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Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu

Product Description: Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context of Japanese literary history to provide a fresh view of major texts by this important literary figure...read more

By Alan Stephen Wolfe

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9780691636351 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $97.50 | About this edition: Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan.

9780691067742 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $45.00

Paperback:

9780691607832 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan.

The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan

Product Description: This novel is a first hand account of rural and agricultural change in Japan through the late 19th and early 20th century when the country's rate of modernization was at its peak.

By Nagatsuka Takashi

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9780415030748 | Routledge, August 1, 1989, cover price $44.44 | About this edition: This novel is a first hand account of rural and agricultural change in Japan through the late 19th and early 20th century when the country's rate of modernization was at its peak.

The River With No Bridge

The River With No Bridge (Hashi no nai kawa) explores with outspoken frankness a subject still taboo in Japan: the intolerance and bigotry faced daily by Japan's largest minority group, the burakumin. Racially no different from other Japanese, over the centuries the burakumin have been cruelly ostracized for their association with occupations considered defiling. Spanning the years 1908 to 1924, the original six volumes of this novel trace the developing awareness of burakumin of their rights and dignity as human beings. Volume 1, translated into English for the first time in 1990, is a story about childhood in a burakumin village.

By Sue Sumii

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9780804815901 | Tuttle Pub, September 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The River With No Bridge (Hashi no nai kawa) explores with outspoken frankness a subject still taboo in Japan: the intolerance and bigotry faced daily by Japan's largest minority group, the burakumin.

Paperback:

9780804833271, titled "River With No Bridge" | Italian edition edition (Tuttle Pub, January 15, 2006), cover price $18.95

Kara Monogatari: Tales of China

Product Description: This work includes a study and a complete, annotated translation of the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Japanese tale collection, the Kara monogatari (Tales of China). The twenty-seven tales are interesting as stories, literate as short written pieces, and important as a Japanese cultural source, as well as being of interest to students of China...read more

By Ward Geddes

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9784902075151 | Kurodahan Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This work includes a study and a complete, annotated translation of the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Japanese tale collection, the Kara monogatari (Tales of China).

9780939252121 | Arizona State Univ Center for asian, June 1, 1984, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Book by

Tosa Diary

By Ki No Tsurayuki

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Hardcover:

9780804813716 | Olympic Marketing Corp, June 1, 1981, cover price $3.98

Paperback:

9780804836951, titled "The Tosa Diary" | Bilingual edition (Tuttle Pub, October 15, 2005), cover price $14.95

The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.

By Basil Hall Chamberlain (trans)

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9780804836753 | Reissue edition (Tuttle Pub, September 15, 2005), cover price $29.95

9780804814393, titled "Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters" | Tuttle Pub, February 1, 1982, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks.

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By Sei Shonagon and Arthur Waley (trans)

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9781432602390, titled "The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon" | Kessinger Pub Co, January 31, 2005, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

9780231073363 | Reissue edition (Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $126.00

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9781417900695 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 31, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Akutagawa and Dazai: Instances of Literary Adaptation

Akutagawa RyÃ»nosuke (1892-1927) is a key figure in modern Japanese literature. He is renowned for the intellectual play and superb craft of his numerous tales. Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was the most distinctive writer to emerge from wartime Japan. His passion and brilliance combined to create a uniquely gifted storyteller. This rich selection of tales illustrates the range of their talents, and illuminates the similarities and differences between these great writers. Translator James O'Brien, an expert in the work of Akutagawa and Dazai, provides an incisive introduction to both writers. Published by the Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, in association with Kurodahan Press

By James A. O'Brien (trans)

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9784902075199 | Kurodahan Pr, December 31, 2004, cover price $15.00

9780939252183 | Arizona State Univ Center for asian, August 1, 1988, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Akutagawa RyÃ»nosuke (1892-1927) is a key figure in modern Japanese literature.

Japanese Literature Reviewed

By Donald Richie

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9784925080781 | Heian Intl Pub Co, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.95

Yokomitsu Riichi: Modernist

In these two works by contemporary Japanese playwright Yamazaki Masakazu, potent figures from Japan's past illuminate the psychological and philosophical concerns of the twentieth century.Translated here in full are Zeami (1963), based on the life of the great master of the no theater, and Sanetomo (1973), the hero of which is the Kamakura general and poet. The translation by J. Thomas Rimer includes both an introduction, which discusses the plays, placing them in their specific historical contexts, and an interview with Yamazaki, in which the author speaks of his life, work, and the course of Japanese drama over the past decades.

By Dennis Keene

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9780231049382, titled "Yokomitsu Riichi, Modernist" | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $81.00 | About this edition: In these two works by contemporary Japanese playwright Yamazaki Masakazu, potent figures from Japan's past illuminate the psychological and philosophical concerns of the twentieth century.

Paperback:

9781583482858 | Iuniverse Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.95

Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese As Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries

Essays on Japanese diaries written from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries present a literary history of the art of journal writing in Japan while providing insight into Japanese life and culture (view table of contents)

By Donald Keene

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9780788155208 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Donald Keene, hailed in the New York Times Book Review as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature," presents here a collection of premodern Japanese diaries that is both a literary history of this genre and a source of insight into Japanese life of the last thousand years.

Paperback:

9780231114370 | Subsequent edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1999), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Essays on Japanese diaries written from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries present a literary history of the art of journal writing in Japan while providing insight into Japanese life and culture

Requiem for Battleship Yamato

The author recounts his experiences as a junior naval officer on the Yamato during World War II and describes battles with the American forces

By Yoshida Mitsuru

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9780295962160 | Univ of Washington Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his experiences as a junior naval officer on the Yamato during World War II and describes battles with the American forces

Paperback:

9781557505446 | Naval Inst Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $18.95

Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs

By Edith Sarra

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9780804733786 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $65.00

Childhood Years: A Memoir

Product Description: Set against the modernization of Japan and World War II, the personal diary of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's early years offers a moving look at one of Japan's modern novelists.

By Junichiro Tanizaki

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Hardcover:

9780870118630 | Kodansha Amer Inc, May 1, 1988, cover price $17.95

Paperback:

9784770023223 | Reissue edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, July 1, 1998), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Set against the modernization of Japan and World War II, the personal diary of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's early years offers a moving look at one of Japan's modern novelists.

9780870119248 | 1 edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, January 1, 1990), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Set against the modernization of Japan and World War II, the personal diary of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's early years offers a moving look at one of Japan's modern novelists.

Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko

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By Yoshida Kenko

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9780231112550 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $30.00

9789990056761 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $0.02

Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa, and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose

Product Description: What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Linda H. Chance

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9780804730013 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: What makes a work of literature readable?

Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories

Product Description: The first anthology to bring to the West in English translation the work of a talented group of Japanese science fiction writers whose works represent a unique contribution--rather than traditionally dealing with the future, they deal with the past and present. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John L. Apostolou (editor) and Martin Harry Greenberg (editor)

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9780942637069, titled "The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories" | Dembner Books, February 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Thirteen science fiction stories deal with Japan's ability to cope with new technology, and the westernization of their culture

Paperback:

9781569801246, titled "The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories" | Barricade Books Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The first anthology to bring to the West in English translation the work of a talented group of Japanese science fiction writers whose works represent a unique contribution--rather than traditionally dealing with the future, they deal with the past and present.

9780942637281 | Reprint edition (Dembner Books, November 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The first anthology to bring to the West in English translation the work of a talented group of Japanese science fiction writers whose works represent a unique contribution--rather than traditionally dealing with the future, they deal with the past and present.

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

Japanese author Lady Murasaki records her life as tutor to the Japanese empress, whose service she entered in 1006, offering inside glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace. (view table of contents)

By Richard Bowring (trans) and Murasaki Shikibu

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9780140435764 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, October 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Japanese author Lady Murasaki records her life as tutor to the Japanese empress, whose service she entered in 1006, offering inside glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace.

Dinosaur Dream

After reading about dinosaurs and then falling asleep, Wilbur sees a baby apatosaurus outside his bedroom and travels backwards through time to return it to its Jurassic time period

By Dennis Nolan

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9780689718328 | Aladdin Paperbacks, September 1, 1994, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: After reading about dinosaurs and then falling asleep, Wilbur sees a baby apatosaurus outside his bedroom and travels backwards through time to return it to its Jurassic time period

School and Library:

9780027681451 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1990, cover price $16.00 | also contains As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan | About this edition: A little boy falls asleep after reading a book about dinosaurs, and dreams that a baby apatosaurus is outside his window, and travels backward in time to help his new friend return home

Reinforced:

9780606063234 | Demco Media, September 1, 1994, cover price $13.53 | About this edition: After reading about dinosaurs and then falling asleep, Wilbur sees a baby apatosaurus outside his bedroom and travels backwards through time to return it to its Jurassic time period

Prebinding:

9780785755494 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: After reading about dinosaurs and then falling asleep, Wilbur sees a baby apatosaurus outside his bedroom and travels backwards through time to return it to its Jurassic time period

The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction

Nineteen stories portray the modern Japanese maiden, wife, mistress, mother, and working woman (view table of contents)

By Makoto Ueda (editor)

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9780870117756 | Kodansha Amer Inc, October 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Nineteen stories portray the modern Japanese maiden, wife, mistress, mother, and working woman

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9780870119262 | Reissue edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, May 1, 1993), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Nineteen stories portray the modern Japanese maiden, wife, mistress, mother, and working woman

Paragons of the Ordinary: The Biographical Literature of Mori Ogai

Product Description: Ogai, one of Japan's most prominent writers and intellectuals, undertook a project during the years 1916-1921, to research and write about individuals who embodied exemplary traits and traditional values. This study focuses on those biographies, making accessible a previously obscure body of work t...read more

By Marvin Marcus

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9780824814502 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Ogai, one of Japan's most prominent writers and intellectuals, undertook a project during the years 1916-1921, to research and write about individuals who embodied exemplary traits and traditional values.

Travelers of a Hundred Ages

Essays on Japanese diaries written from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries present a literary history of the art of journal writing in Japan while providing insight into one thousand years of Japanese life and culture

By Donald Keene

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9780805016550 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1992), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays on Japanese diaries written from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries present a literary history of the art of journal writing in Japan while providing insight into one thousand years of Japanese life and culture

The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction

Product Description: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu, and discusses its linguistic, literary and cultural contexts...read more

By Edward Fowler

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9780520060647 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century.

Paperback:

9780520078833 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, April 1, 1992, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century.

Genji Gaiden: The Origins of Kumazawa Banzan's Commentary on the Tale of Genji

By Ian James McMullen

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Hardcover:

9780863721533 | Ithaca, November 1, 1991, cover price $60.00

Narrow Road to the Interior

By Matsuo Basho and Sam Hamill (trans)

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9780877736448 | Reissue edition (Shambhala Pubns, October 1, 1991), cover price $9.95

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