A Kamigata anthology : literature from Japan's metropolitan centers, 1600-1750

著者

書誌事項

A Kamigata anthology : literature from Japan's metropolitan centers, 1600-1750

edited by Sumie Jones and Adam L. Kern with Kenji Watanabe

University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2020

  • : pbk

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全18件

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • Characters and Manners, High and Low
  • Exploring Japan: Traveling the Freeways on Foot
  • The Monstrous and the Weird
  • Staging the Supernatural: Heroism in Kamigata and Edo Theatre
  • Landscapes and Seasons
  • Nature and Sentiments
  • Love and Eros
  • Passions among Men
  • Gossip, Reportage, and Advertising
  • Laughing at Everyday Life
  • Philosophizing the Ordinary

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois culture first emerged in Japan, telling the story of the rising commoner arts of Kamigata, or the "Upper Regions" of Kyoto and Osaka, which harkened back to the Japan's middle ages even as they rebelled against and competed with that earlier era. Both cities prided themselves on being models and trendsetters in all cultural matters, whether arts, crafts, books, or food. The volume also shows how elements of popular arts that germinated during this period ripened into the full-blown consumer culture of late-Edo. The tendency to imagine Japan's modernity as a creation of Western influence since the mid-nineteenth century is still strong, particularly outside Japan studies. A Kamigata Anthology challenges such assumptions by illustrating the flourishing phenomenon of Japan's movement into its own modernity through a selection of the best examples from the period, including popular genres such as haikai poetry, handmade picture scrolls, travel guidebooks, kabuki and joruri plays, prose narratives of contemporary life, and jokes told by professional entertainers. Well illustrated with prints from popular books of the time and artwork containing poems and commentaries, the volume emphasizes texts currently unavailable in English and translated into entertaining, vibrant prose.

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

ページトップへ