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Conversations with Shotetsu

Author : Robert Brower
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901575
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Shotetsu written by Robert Brower and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shōtetsu monogatari was written by a disciple of Shōtetsu (1381–1459), whom many scholars regard as the last great poet of the courtly tradition. The work provides information about the practice of poetry during the 14th and 15th centuries, including anecdotes about famous poets, advice on how to treat certain standard topics, and lessons in etiquette when attending or participating in poetry contests and gatherings. But unlike the many other works of that time that stop at that level, Shōtetsu’s contributions to medieval aesthetics gained prominence, showing him as a worthy heir—both as poet and thinker—to the legacy of the great poet-critic Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241). The last project of the late Robert H. Brower, Conversations with Shôtetsu provides a translation of the complete Nihon koten bungaku taikei text, as edited by Hisamatsu Sen'ichi. Steven D. Carter has annotated the translation and provided an introduction that details Shôtetsu’s life, his place in the poetic circles of his day, and the relationship of his work to the larger poetic tradition of medieval Japan. Conversations with Shōtetsu is important reading for anyone interested in medieval Japanese literature and culture, in poetry, and in aesthetics. It provides a unique look at the literary world of late medieval Japan.

Conversations with Shōtetsu

Author : Shōtetsu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472127627
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Shōtetsu written by Shōtetsu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays

Author : Steven D. Carter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537557
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays written by Steven D. Carter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English. The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a representative selection of more than one hundred zuihitsu from a range of historical periods written by close to fifty authors—from well-known figures, such as Matsuo Basho, Natsume Soseki, and Koda Aya, to such writers as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsuro, whose works appear here for the first time in English. Writers speak on the experience of coming down with a cold, the aesthetics of tea, the physiology and psychology of laughter, the demands of old age, standards of morality, the way to raise children, the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the thoughts that accompany sleeplessness, the anxiety of undergoing surgery, and the unexpected benefits of training a myna bird to say "Thank you." These essays also provide moving descriptions of snowy landscapes, foggy London, the famous cherry blossoms of Ueno Park, and the appeal of rainy vistas, and relate the joys and troubles of everyone from desperate samurai to filial children to ailing cats.

Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan

Author : Rajyashree Pandey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901893
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan written by Rajyashree Pandey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph-length study in English of Kamo no Chōmei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan. Drawing upon a wide range of writings in a variety of genres from the Heian and Kamakura periods, Pandey focuses on the terms kyōgen kigo (wild words and fancy phrases), shoji soku nehan (samsara is nirvana), hōben (expedient means), and suki (single-minded devotion to an art). She shows how these terms deployed by writers in an attempt to reconcile literary and artistic activities with a commitment to Buddhism. By locating Chōmei within this broad context, the book offers an original reading of his texts, while at the same time casting a light upon intellectual preoccupations that were central to the times. Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan is an important contribution to a growing body of work that challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary—a distinction that would have made little sense to medieval writers, many of whom were poets as well as priests—and sheds light on the particular ways in which a religio-aesthetic tradition came to be articulated in medieval Japan. Through an examination of records left by Chōmei's contemporaries, the book also traces the life of Chōmei, particularly his activities as a court poet and the circumstances that led to his taking the tonsure.

The Tale of Matsura

Author : Wayne Lammers
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901591
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Tale of Matsura written by Wayne Lammers and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyōzōshi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to “several works” by Teika and then names Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura; ca. 1190) as the only one that can be considered successful. The work is here translated in full, with annotation. Set in the pre-Nara period, The Tale of Matsura is the story of a young Japanese courtier, Ujitada, who is sent to China with an embassy and has a number of supernatural experiences while there. Affairs of the heart dominate The Tale of Matsura, as is standard for courtly tales. Several of its other features break the usual mold, however: its time and setting; the military episode that would seem to belong instead in a war tale; scenes depicting the sovereign’s daily audiences, in which formal court business is conducted; a substantial degree of specificity in referring to things Chinese; a heavy reliance on fantastic and supernatural elements; an obvious effort to avoid imitating The Tale of Genji as other late-Heian tales had done; and a most inventive ending. The discussion in the introduction briefly touches upon each of these features, and then focuses at some length on how characteristics associated with the poetic ideal of yōen inform the tale. Evidence relating to the date and authorship of the tale is explored in two appendixes.

Traditional Japanese Literature

Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504535
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Japanese Literature written by Haruo Shirane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man'yoshu, and the Kokinshu. He preserves his comprehensive survey of secular and religious anecdotes (setsuwa) as well as classical poems with extensive commentary. He features no drama; selections from influential war epics; and notable essays on poetry, fiction, history, and religion. Texts are interwoven to bring into focus common themes, styles, and allusions while inviting comparison and debate. The result is a rich encounter with ancient and medieval Japanese culture and history. Each text and genre is enhanced by extensive introductions that provide sociopolitical and cultural context. The anthology is organized by period, genre, and topic—an instructor-friendly structure—and a comprehensive bibliography guides readers toward further study. Praise for Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 "Haruo Shirane has done a splendid job at this herculean task."—Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia "A comprehensive and innovative anthology.... All of the introductions are excellent."—Journal of Asian Studies "One of those impressive, erudite, must-have titles for anyone interested in Asian literature."—Bloomsbury Review "An anthology that comprises superb translations of an exceptionally wide range of texts.... Highly recommended."—Choice "A wealth of material."—Monumenta Nipponica

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231526520
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons written by Haruo Shirane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Refuting the belief that this tradition reflects Japan's agrarian origins and supposedly mild climate, Shirane traces the establishment of seasonal topics to the poetry composed by the urban nobility in the eighth century. After becoming highly codified and influencing visual arts in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the seasonal topics and their cultural associations evolved and spread to other genres, eventually settling in the popular culture of the early modern period. Contrasted with the elegant images of nature derived from court poetry was the agrarian view of nature based on rural life. The two landscapes began to intersect in the medieval period, creating a complex, layered web of competing associations. Shirane discusses a wide array of representations of nature and the four seasons in many genres, originating in both the urban and rural perspective: textual (poetry, chronicles, tales), cultivated (gardens, flower arrangement), material (kimonos, screens), performative (noh, festivals), and gastronomic (tea ceremony, food rituals). He reveals how this kind of "secondary nature," which flourished in Japan's urban architecture and gardens, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment it was disappearing. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane clarifies the use of natural images and seasonal topics and the changes in their cultural associations and function across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this fascinating book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world.

A History of Japan

Author : Conrad Totman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119022355
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A History of Japan written by Conrad Totman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, imperialism, and industrialism. Updated to include an epilogue on Japan today and tomorrow. Now includes more on women in history and more on international relations. Bibliographical listings have been updated and enlarged. Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.

Murmured Conversations

Author :
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804779392
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Murmured Conversations written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unforgotten Dreams

Author : Shōtetsu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231105767
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Unforgotten Dreams written by Shōtetsu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents translations of over 200 poems by the master of The Way of Poetry, who is generally considered to be the last great poet of the classical uta form.

Japanese Literature Reviewed

Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : ICG Muse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Literature Reviewed written by Donald Richie and published by ICG Muse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Richie reviews works by over 100 authors in this collection of essays covering both ancient and modern classics. It provides an ideal introduction to Japanese literature.

Asian Studies Newsletter

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Studies Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Books on Japan in Western Languages Recently Acquired by the National Diet Library

Author : Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Books on Japan in Western Languages Recently Acquired by the National Diet Library written by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asian Americans Information Directory

Author : Backus
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 : 9780810385016
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Asian Americans Information Directory written by Backus and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains nearly 6000 listings that direct users to organizations, agencies, institutions, programmes, services and publications concerned with Asian American life and culture. Separate sections cover 22 Asian groups represented in the USA.

Current Contents. Arts & Humanities

Author : Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Current Contents. Arts & Humanities written by Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa). and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Directory of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in the United States and Canada: Japan specialists

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Directory of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in the United States and Canada: Japan specialists written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is part of an ongoing project through which The Japan Foundation gathers information about Japan specialists and Japanese studies institutions in various countries. The U.S. part of the series is handled separately and has been managed and edited since the late 1980s by Patricia Steinhoff, professor of sociology at the University of Hawai'i. The Japan Foundation is the Japanese government's agency for cultural diplomacy and international cultural affairs. Established in 1972 by special legislation in the Japanese Diet, The Japan Foundation became an Independent Administrative Institution in October 2003. Its mission is to promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries. It maintains its headquarters in Tokyo and operates through a network of 19 overseas offices in 18 countries worldwide.

Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety

Author : Mae J. Smethurst
Publisher : East Asia Program; Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety written by Mae J. Smethurst and published by East Asia Program; Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of five noh translations (containing an introduction, translations, short commentaries and a glossary) differs from most others in that none of the plays are of the mugenno type, but are instead genzaino, real-life noh. The plays focus on living characters rather than spirits or ghosts, and on dramatic action rather than poetry, song and dance. In addition the five noh satisfy several of the most important features of Aristotle's definition of good tragedy. That is, they all have plot, which Aristotle says in his Poetics is the imitation of action. The plot centers on characters who are related to each other or are a part of the same household. In each plot, a fatal or harmful event is either enacted or threatened, and there is an unexpected change in the direction of the action. In Shun'ei, a father, visited by his son, is pardoned from a death sentence; in Dampu, a son visits his father, who is then executed, and upon avenging his father's death, unexpectedly escapes the killer's henchmen; in Shichikiochi and Nakamitsu, a son thought to have been killed turns up alive, much to the amazement of his father; and finally, in Nishikido, a brother turns on his own brother and attacks with military force.This volume is intended to provide the reader with a translation of noh plays that either have not been previously translated into English or have not been translated for a long time. The translations are as faithful as possible to the original Japanese so that the reader can gain a close glimpse of the language and action of this particular type of noh. It is a noh filled with action compared to many that have been translated, a noh that appealed to the public at large during the medieval period. Bibliography and scholarly notes are kept to a minimum.