Tokyo stories : a literary stroll / translated from the Japanese and edited by Lawrence Rogers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogers, Lawrence (Lawrence William)

Series:

Voices from Asia ; 12.

Voices from Asia ; 12

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Japanese--Translations into English--History and criticism.

Short stories, Japanese.

Japan--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Japan.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 267 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

A collection of translated stories about life in Tokyo throughout most of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Central Tokyo ; Mire / Kajii Motojirō

Terrifying Tokyo / Yumeno Kyūsaku

The image / Takeda Rintarō

Fountains in the rain / Mishima Yukio

Meeting again / Mukōda Kuniko

Jacob's Tokyo ladder / Hino Keizō

Shitamachi ; The death register / Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

Kid Ume, the silver cat / Kawabata Yasunari

The first day of the fair / Takeda Rintarō

Elegy / Sata Ineko

The old part of town / Hayashi Fumiko

Fireworks / Mishima Yukio

Azuma bridge / Nagai Kafū

An unclaimed body / Ikeda Michiko

West of the palace ; From behind the study door / Natsume Sōseki

Firefly tavern / Saegusa Kazuko

Sparrows / Irokawa Takehiro

The south end ; Morning comes twice a day / Inaba Mayumi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266).

ISBN:

0520217861

0520217888

OCLC:

48517509