The Kiso Road : The Life and Times of Shimazaki Toson / William E. Naff; J. Thomas Rimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naff, William E., author.

Contributor:

Rimer, J. Thomas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shimazaki, Tōson, 1872-1943.

Shimazaki, Tōson.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (693 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William E. Naff, the distinguished scholar of Japanese literature widely known and highly regarded for his eloquent translations of the writings of Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943), spent the last years of his life writing a full-length biography of Toson. Virtually completed at the time of his death, The Kiso Road provides a rich and colorful account of this canonic novelist who, along with Natsume Soseki and Mori Ogai, formed the triumvirate of writers regarded as giants in Meiji Japan, all three of whom helped establish the parameters of modern Japanese literature. Professor Naff's biography skillfully places Toson in the context of his times and discusses every aspect of his career and personal life, as well as introducing in detail a number of his important but as yet untranslated works. Toson's long life, his many connections with other important Japanese artists and intellectuals, his sojourn in France during World War I, and his later visit to South America, permit a biography of depth and detail that serves as a kind of cultural history of Japan during an often turbulent period. The Kiso Road, as approachable and exciting as any novel, with Toson himself as its complex protagonist, is arguably the most thorough account of any modern Japanese writer presently available in English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editor's Note

Foreword / Tōson, William E. Naff 's

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Meiji Literary Scene

1. Home and Family: Before 1872

2. Childhood and Education: 1872-1892

3. A Shaky Start: 1892-1893

4. A Poet's Apprenticeship: 1893 -1896

5. Escape to Sendai: 1896 -1898

6. To Komoro: 1899 -1900

7. From Poetry to Fiction: 1900 -1904

8. Personal Catastrophe, Public Triumph: 1905 -1907

9. A Bleak Spring and a Harsh Summer: 1907-1913

10. The French Years: 1913 -1916

11. A New Life: 1916 -1923

12. The Opening of The Last Act: 1923 -1927

13. Before The Dawn : 1927-1935

14. The Final Years: 1936 -1943

Notes

Index of Important Persons

Significant Works of Shimazaki Tōson

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Authors and Editor

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-648) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824871673

0824871677

9780824860738

082486073X

OCLC:

878146743