Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900, abridged
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Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900, abridged
（Translations from the Asian classics）
Columbia University Press, c2008
Abridged ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
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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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