Nō And Bunraku

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

Dawn to the West

Donald Keene

• Hardcover
• This is the first book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture ... Lees meer

Early Light

Osamu Dazai

• Hardcover | Engels | Storybook ND
• Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in th... Lees meer

The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Book
• This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Lees meer

The Breaking Jewel

Makoto Oda

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably becom... Lees meer

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Book
• The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and t... Lees meer

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720 - 1830

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Japan
• Originally published in 1952, this account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan has been enlarged by two new chapters that extend the s... Lees meer

Chushingura (the Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perenially popu... Lees meer

The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai

• Hardcover | Engels
• This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting ... Lees meer

Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated ... Lees meer

Five Modern Japanese Novelists

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• 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 ... Lees meer

Modern Japanese Literature

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered th... Lees meer

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• 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... Lees meer

Emperor of Japan

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels
• When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more ... Lees meer

Emperor of Japan

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more ... Lees meer

Essays in Idleness

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Despite the turbulent times in which he lived, the Buddhist priest Kenkō met the world with a measured eye. As Emperor Go-Daigo fended off a challenge... Lees meer

The Winter Sun Shines in

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorpora... Lees meer

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

• Hardcover | Engels
• Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the ... Lees meer

Three Plays by Kobo Abe

Kōbō Abe

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Asian Literature
• Three plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writers-Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here-translated for this vol... Lees meer

Chushingura

Takeda Izumo

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book is a puppet play which represents major Asian traditions. A translation of the eighteenth-century Japanese drama. Chushingura (TheTreasury o... Lees meer

Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• During Yoshimasa's reign, the aesthetic taste of the Japanese was shaped: the nõ theater flourished, Japanese gardens were developed, and the tea cere... Lees meer

Chushingura

Takeda Izumo

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is a puppet play which represents major Asian traditions. A translation of the eighteenth-century Japanese drama. Chushingura (TheTreasury o... Lees meer

Eikoh Hosoe: Kamaitachi

Eikoh Hosoe, Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels
• An undisputed masterwork among Japanese photobooks, Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata's "Kamaitachi" was originally released in 1969 as a limited editi... Lees meer