Landscapes and portraits appreciations of Japanese culture / Donald Keene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keene, Donald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Japan--Civilization.

Japan.

Civilization.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

343 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Tokyo, Japan ; Palo Alto, California : Kodansha International Ltd., [1971]

Contents:

1. Some Japanese landscapes: Japanese aesthetics

Feminine sensibility in the Heian era

Individuality and pattern in Japanese literature

Realism and unreality in Japanese drama

2. The world of Haikai poetry: Matsunaga Teitoku and the beginning of Haikai poetry

Bashō's journey of 1684

Bashō's journey to Sarashina

3. The creation of modern Japanese poetry: Modern Japanese poetry

Shiki and Takuboku

4. Three modern novelists: Tanizaki Junichirō

Dazai Osamu

Mishima Yukio

5. Some Japanese eccentrics: The portrait of Ikkyū

Fujimoto Kizan and The great mirror of love

Hanako

6. The Japanese and the landscapes of war: The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and Japanese culture

Japanese writers and the Greater East Asia War

7. The translation of Japanese culture: On translation

Arthur Waley

Confessions of a specialist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-343).

Other Format:

Online version: Keene, Donald. Landscapes and portraits, appreciations of Japanese culture.

ISBN:

0870111469

9780870111464

OCLC:

144682