The Columbia anthology of Japanese essays : zuihitsu from the tenth to the twenty-first century

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The Columbia anthology of Japanese essays : zuihitsu from the tenth to the twenty-first century

edited and translated by Steven D. Carter

Columbia University Press, c2014

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

Available at  / 22 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

  • The pillow book / Sei Shônagon
  • Essays in idleness / Yoshida no Kenkô
  • Conversations with Shôtetsu / Shôtetsu
  • "To unify the nation and restore civil society" / Ichijo Kaneyoshi
  • "Cottage of dreams" and "Three loves" / Shohaku
  • A Tenbun miscellany / The Fujiwara Lay Monk
  • Laughs to keep you awake / Anrakuan Sakuden
  • "On Ôhara" / Kinoshita Chôshôshi
  • Haikai prose / Matsuo Bashô
  • Amusements / Amenomori Hôshû
  • Window musings / Matsuzaki Kanran
  • A miscellany of stories / Morita Morimasa
  • Chats with myself / Dazai Shundai
  • Jeweled comb basket / Motoori Norinaga
  • Idle chats beneath a northern window / Tachibana Nankei
  • Blossoms and the moon / Matsudaira Sadanobu
  • Year by year: a miscellany / Ishiwara Masaakira
  • Behind the koto / Murata Harumi
  • Shunparo's jottings / Shiba Kôkan
  • Unusual people of the modern age and Kanden's crop of jottings / Ban Kôkei
  • Hoary stories / Tadano Makuzu
  • Haikai prose / Natsume Seibi
  • Clouds of floating grasses
  • The Modern Period. Autumn ensemble / Higuchi Ichiyô
  • "A cat's grave" and "London fog" / Natsume Sôseki
  • "Snow" / Tokutomi Roka
  • "Desk" / Tayama Katai
  • "Fireworks" / Nagai Kafû
  • "Laughter" / Terada Torahiko
  • "Various thoughts on the Great Kanto earthquake" and "my moral precepts for everyday life" / Kikuchi Kan
  • "Master Hyakken's idle fantasies," "Bumpy road," and "A long fence" / Uchida Hyakken
  • "The image of an author" / Dazai Osamu
  • "Baby sparrow," "Turtledoves," and "Morning glories" / Shiga Naoya
  • Esprit and humor / Kawamori Yoshizô
  • "Sleepless nights" and "A bed for my books" / Osaragi Jirô
  • "On being down with a cold" / Kawakami Tetsutarô
  • "The road" / Shonô Junzô
  • "Kitchen," "Raindrops," and "A memento of the season" / Kôda Aya
  • "On surgery" and "Rainy day" / Kôno Taeko
  • "Looking for gloves" / Mukôda Kuniko
  • One, we count, then / Takenishi Hiroko
  • Sunday musings / Hiraiwa Yumie
  • "Dust mogul" and other short essays / Dekune Tatsurô
  • "Myna bird" / Kizaki Satoko
  • "Concerning the order of culture" / Shiroyama Saburo
  • "On zuihitsu" / Sakai Junko

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