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(★)Este libro es edicion renovada de los ´NI-0321´ y ´NI-0439´. (The sweep of Japanese literature in its infinite variety and unusual beauty- from earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century- is the focus of this impressive volume. Every genre and style of Japanese literature, from the somber beauty of Noh plays to the eroticism of seventeenth-century novels is included. Other offerings include poetry and haiku, folktales and legends. The translations have been chosen not only for their accuracy but also for their readability as English prose and poetry. Donald Keene´s informative Introduction traces links between the various works, somr of which may be foreign to Western readers. The result is a thorough and fascinating insight into the literature and culture of classical Japan. ▼Donald Keene, one of the foremost Western authorities on Japanese literature, is widely regarded as America´s pre-eminent cultural ambassador to Japan. Presently University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, he has written and translated over fifty books. The winner of numerous literary awards and prizes, including the Order of the Rising Sun, and the Kikuchi Kan, Yamagata Banto, Japan Foundation, Tokyo Metropolitan, Fukuoka, and Yasushi prizes. Professor Keene was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Literary Prize for the best work of literary criticism in Japanese [in 1985 for´Hyakudai no kakaku´] and was awarded the Nihon Bungaku Taisho[Grand Prize of Japanese Literature] for the same work. In 1986, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1990 was elected as a foreign member of the Japan Academy. →Contents : ◆ANCIENT PERIOD [To 794 A.D.]～1.Man-yooshuu, 2.The Luck of the Sea and the Luck of the Mountains, 3.Kaifuusoo ◆HEIAN PERIOD [794-1185]～1.Kuukai : Kuukai and His Master, 2.The Tales of Ise, 3.Kokinshuu, 4.Ki no Tsurayuki : The Tosa Diary, 5.Poetry from the Six Collections, 6.The mother of Michitsuna : Kageroo Nikki, 7.Murasaki Shikibu : Yuugao [from´The Tale of Genji´], 8.Sei Shoonagon : The Pillow Book, 9.Murasaki Shikibu : Diary, 10.The daughter of Takasue : The Sarashina Diary, 11. Poetry in Chinese, 12.Ryoojin Hishoo, 13.The Lady Who Loved Insects ◆KAMAKURA PERIOD [1185-1333]～1.The Tale of the Heike, 2.Shinkokinshuu, 3.Kamo no Choomei : An Account of My Hut, 4.Tales from the Uji Collection, 5.The Captain of Naruto ◆MUROMACHI PERIOD [1333-1600]～1.Yoshida Kenkoo : Essays in Idleness, 2.The Exile of Godaigo, 3.Seami Motokiyo : The Art of the Noo, 4.Plan of the Noo Stage, 5.Kan-ami Kiyotsugu : Sotoba Komachi, 6.Seami Motokiyo : Birds of Sorrow, 7.Seami Motokiyo : Atsumori, 8.Seami Motokiyo : The Damask Drum, 9.The Bird-Catcher in Hades, 10.Busu, 11.Poems in Chinese by Buddhist Monks, 12.Three Poets at Minase, 13.The Three Priests ◆TOKUGAWA PERIOD [1600-1868]～1.Ihara Saikaku : What the Seasons Brought to the Almanac-Maker, 2.Ihara Saikaku : The Umbrella Oracle, 3.Ihara Saikaku : The Eternal Storehouse of Japan, 4.Matsuo Bashoo : The Narrow Road of Oku, 5.Matsuo Bashoo : Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling, 6.Mukai Kyorai : Conversations with Kyorai, 7.Haiku by Bashoo and His School, 8.Chikamatsu on the Art of the Puppet Stage, 9.Chikamatsu Monzaemon : The Love Suicides at Sonezaki, 10.Ejima Kiseki : A Wayward Wife, 11.Jippensha Ikku : Hizakurige, 12.Takizawa Bakin : Shino and Hamaji, 13.Haiku of the Middle and Late Tokugawa Period, 14.Waka of the Tokugawa Period, 15.Poetry and Prose in Chinese) |
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