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  • Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

    Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value

    by Edward Mack, Rey Chow, Michael Dutton, Harry Harootunian, Rosalind C. Morris ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan’s publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as cultural and economic power consolidated in Tokyo, the city’s literary and publishing elites came to dominate the dissemination and preservation ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Affect of Difference

    Representations of Race in East Asian Empire

    by Christopher P. Hanscom, Dennis Washburn, ann-elise lewallen, Professor Paul D. Barclay, Professor Todd A. Henry, Professor Chul Kim, Professor Gyewon Kim, Professor Kate McDonald, Professor Kari Shepherdson-Scott0, Professor Ji Hee Jung1, InYoung Bong2, John Whittier Treat3, Kim Brandt4, Professor Edward Mack5, Professor William H. Bridges , IV6, Angela Yiu7 ...
    The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors approach this subject through the exploration of everyday culture from a range of academic disciplines, each working to show how race was made visible and present as a potential means of identification. By analyzing artifacts from diverse ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Mikey's Magic Blackboard

    by Mack Edwards ...
    A whimsical tale written in rhyme of one little boy's courageous journey to rid his fear of the dark in his room each night and the goblins and ghosts he's sure inhabit it. Instead of spooky ghouls, he stumbles upon a portal to amazing places and endless experiences, a magical blackboard on which he can rough in and refine all his wildest dreams and hatch his juiciest schemes. If he changes his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Hojoki

    Visions of a Torn World

    by Kamo no Chomei ...
    Series series Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
    A luminous translation of the classic Buddhist poem.Japan's capital city of Kyoto was devastated by earthquake, storm, and fire in the late 12th century. Retreating from "this unkind world," the poet and Buddhist priest Kamo-no-Chomei left the capital for the forested mountains, where he eventually constructed his famous "ten-foot-square" hut.From this solitary vantage point Chomei produced Hojoki ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Art of Haiku

    Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters

    by Stephen Addiss ...
    In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku is cause for celebration—but it can also compel us to go back to the beginning: to look at haiku’s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Ink Dark Moon

    Love Poems by Ono no Komachi anmd Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

    by Izumi Shikibu, Ono no Komachi ...
    Translated by Jane Hirshfield, Mariko Aratani ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    These translated poems were written by two women of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D.The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment. ... Read more

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  • Zen and Shinto

    A History of Japanese Philosophy

    by Chikao Fujisawa ...
    This history of Japanese philosophical traditions underscores the importance of Zen and Shinto to the development of Japanese culture.How do the Japanese talk about their native philosophy, Shinto, so many years after the Western Allies abolished it as a state religion? What is its relationship to Buddhism, and particularly to Zen? How modern can this very ancient creed ever be? These are some of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World of the Shining Prince

    Court Life in Ancient Japan

    by Ivan Morris ...
    Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan. • "A book which should delight anyone interested in Japan.” —The New York Times Book ReviewUsing The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set the cultural tone. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • The Fall of Language in the Age of English

    by Minae Mizumura ...
    Translated by Mari Yoshihara, Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Yoko Tawada

    Voices from Everywhere

    by Hiltrud Arens, Bernard Banoun, Bettina Brandt, Suzuko Mousel Knott, Christina Kraenzle, Margaret Mitsutani, Marjorie Perloff, Keijiro Suga, Reiko Tachibana, Yasemin Yildiz ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Yöko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Japanese and Western Literature

    A Comparative Study

    by Armando Martins Janeira ...
    Japanese and Western Literature delves deeply into Japanese culture to discover the concepts that similarize and differentiate Japanese and Western literary creations. Paralleling Japanese literary creations and fundamental thought with those of the West, the author draws many illuminating comparisons: for example, between the novels of Murasaki Shikibu and Marcel Proust, between the Portuguese ... Read more

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  • Reading Colonial Japan

    Text, Context, and Critique

    Edited by Michele Mason, Helen Lee ...
    By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-western colonial power in the 20th century, Japan controlled a vast area of Asia and numerous archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean. The massive extraction of resources and extensive cultural assimilation policies radically impacted the lives of millions of Asians and Micronesians, and the political, economic, and cultural ... Read more

    $22.99 USD