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This collection of 20 essays focuses on the rich tradition of Japaneseulture. It illuminates important aspects of Japanese literature for theeneral re...
Appreciations of Japanese Culture
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An American in the Heart of Japan
โFew memoirs have the concision, modesty, and charm that mark this late-life work by . . . Americaโs most renowned scholar and interpreter of Japa...
Japanese Literature of the Pre-modern Era, 1600-1867
Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered the leading interpreter of that nation's literature to ...
The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb ...
Twenty-one essays on Japanese writers from the 15th century to the Meiji period....
Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among th...
Meiji and His World, 1852โ1912
The renowned Japanese scholar โbrings us as close to the inner life of the Meiji emperor as we are ever likely to getโ (The New York Times Book Re...
The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene
For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkabl...
At once an intimate account of the diarists' lives and a testimony to the greater struggles and advances of Japanese culture, this book illuminates th...
From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety and unusual beauty, from earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century, is conveniently prese...
Revised Edition
This is an account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan from 1720 to 1830. These are the dates of the beginning of official interest in...
To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures
This is the intimate and inspiring story of one of the truly great cosmopolitans of our time. During an exceptional career spanning five decades, Dona...
An Introduction for Western Readers
Essays on Japanese diaries written from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries present a literary history of the art of journal writing in Japan while ...
A Life of Masaoka Shiki
Rather than resist the vast changes sweeping Japan in the 19th century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) incorporated new Western influences into hi...
Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793โ1841
Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his imp...
The Classical Theatre of Japan
The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre
The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886โ1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote m...
The Creation of the Soul of Japan
"Today Yoshimasa is remembered primarily as the builder of the Temple of the Silver Pavilion and as the ruler at the time of the Onin War (1467-1477),...
Two Forms of Japanese Theatre
Donald Keene combines informative works on two forms of classical Japanese theater into a single volume. The No text looks at all aspects of this trad...
Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance