Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900, abridged
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Bibliographic Information
Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900, abridged
(Translations from the Asian classics)
Columbia University Press, c2008
Abridged ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 14 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Translated from the Japanese
Previous ed.: 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.
Table of Contents
Preface Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters 1. Early Modern Japan 2. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World 3. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho 4. Chikamatsu Monsaemon and the Puppet Theater 5. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater 6. Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature 7. Comic and Satiric Poetry 8. Literati Meditations 9. Early Yomihon: History, Romance, and the Supernatural 10. Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion 11. Kibyoshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books 12. Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners 13. Ninjobon: Sentimental Fiction 14. Gokan: Extended Picture Books 15. Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki 16. Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited
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