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The Columbia anthology of Japanese essays : zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First century /

A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a Meiji-period novelist, 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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Carter, Steven D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Japanese.
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Japanese essays > Translations into English.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I. Beginnings; 1. The Pillow Book; 2. Essays in Idleness; II. The Late Medieval Era; 3. Conversations with Shōtetsu; 4. "To Unify the Nation and Restore Civil Society"; 5. "Cottage of Dreams" and "Three Loves"; 6. A Tenbun Miscellany; III. The Edo Period; 7. Laughs to Keep You Awake; 8. "On Ohara"; 9. Haikai Prose; 10. Amusements; 11. Window Musings; 12. A Miscellany of Stories; 13. Chats with Myself; 14. Jeweled Comb Basket; 15. Idle Chats Beneath a Northern Window; 16. Blossoms and the Moon
  • 17. Year by Year: A Miscellany; 18. Behind the Koto; 19. Shunparo's Jottings; 20. Unusual People of the Modern Age and Kanden's Crop of Jottings; 21. Hoary Stories; 22. Haikai Prose; 23. Clouds of Floating Grasses; IV. The Modern Period; 24. Autumn Ensemble; 25. Short Works from Long Days; 26. "Snow"; 27. "Desk"; 28. "Fireworks"; 29. "Laughter"; 30. "Various Thoughts on the Great Kanto Earthquake" and "My Moral Precepts for Everyday Life"; 31. "Master Hyakken's Idle Fantasies," "Bumpy Road," and "A Long Fence"; 32. "The Image of an Author"
  • 33. "Baby Sparrow," "Turtledoves," and "Morning Glories"; 34. Esprit and Humor; 35. "Sleepless Nights" and "A Bed for My Books"; 36. "On Being Down with a Cold"; 37. "The Road"; 38. "Kitchen," "Raindrops," and "A Memento of the Season"; 39. "On Surgery" and "Rainy Day"; 40. "Looking for Gloves"; 41. One, We Count, Then . . .; 42. Sunday Musings; 43. Not Much of a Book, but Please . . . and Just Be Sure You're Not a Bother to Anyone; 44. "Myna Bird"; 45. "Concerning the Order of Culture"; 46. "On Zuihitsu; Permissions