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Anne Nishimura Morse, J.Thomas Rimer, ...

Lund Humphries, 2004

Companion essays delineate the history of this art form
The collaborative project of Anne Nishimura Morse, J. Thomas Rimer, and Kendall H. Brown, Art Of The Japanese Postcard is a gorgeous, full-color gallery of Japanese postcards from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Far more than casual items to mail, most of these cards were designed by prominent artists and feature striking use of color and imagery. A few companion essays delineate the ...

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the Present (Modern Asian Literature ...

Columbia University Press, 2007

In Volume 2 of Columbia's comprehensive anthology of modern Japanese literature, thoughtfully selected and carefully translated readings portray the vast changes that have transformed Japanese culture since the end of the Pacific War. Beginning with the Allied Occupation in 1945 and concluding with the early twenty-first century, these stories, poems, plays, and essays reflect Japan's heady transition from poverty to prosperity, its struggle ...

Historical Fiction of Mori Ogai (Unesco Collection of Representative Works Japanese Series)

1 review
Ogai Mori, David Dilworth

University of Hawaii Press, 1991

A great taste of one of Japan's master's, Mori Ogai.
David Dilworth presents the reader with a great compilation of short stories of, arguably, Japan's best author. Each story is masterly crafted with meticulous attention paid to historical detail, and each story is well prefaced, explaining Ogai's philosophic and aesthetic intentions. Either Dilworth or a collegue has made first rate translations in this edition. I would reccomend this book ...

Collected Writings of J. Thomas Rimer
J. Thomas Rimer

Routledge, 2004

Widely acknowledged as the doyen of twentieth-century Japanese literature, fine art and the performing arts, as well as being renowned for his translations of Zeami and Mori Ogai . Collected Writings of J.Thomas Rimer brings together in whole or in part much of Rimer's prodigious output in these fields over the past forty years, including some of his milestone (fully illustrated) essays on Japanese Art, especially 'Tokyo in Paris/ Paris in ...

A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature

2 reviews
J. Thomas Rimer

Kodansha International (JPN), 1999

INDISPENSIBLE GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS
Afraid to make your first foray into the magical and majestical world of Japanese literature? Then here is a perfect introduction for you. Within this slim volume numerous wonderful recommendations abound, although there is one small oversight -- "Musashi" by Eiji Yoshikawa isn't mentioned. Ah well. Also look into, "The Pleasures of Japanese Literature," by Donald Keene. And for lovers of poetry, ...

Old Taoist

2 reviews
Stephen Addiss, Jonathan Chaves, ...

Columbia University Press, 2001

Highly recommended to students of Asian philosophy & poetry.
Translations of and commentary on one author's Taoist poems are presented in a warm blend of spiritual, religious and philosophical inspection which considers the last of the great poet-painters of Japan. Over 150 of his poems are treated to an appraisal which considers both form and content in a fine coverage worthy of inclusion in any strong Asian collection.

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945 (Modern Asian ...
J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel

Columbia University Press, 2007

-- Stephen Snyder, University of California, coeditor of Oe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan

Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan

Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1991

The literary legacies of World War II have been mixed and varied, especially in West Germany and Japan, where the burden of defeat has been expressed by novelists and intellectuals in strikingly different ways. Reflecting the cultural differences between the two nations, and the experiences of occupation and democratization that occurred after the war, the postwar literatures of Germany and Japan intimately reveal the hopes and aspirations, the ...

Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion

Whereabouts Press, 2006

This collection guides the reader through the complexity that is Japan. Although frequently misunderstood as a homogenous nation, Japan is a land of tremendous linguistic, geographical, and cultural diversity. Hino Keizo leads the reader through Tokyo's mazes in "Jacob's Tokyo Ladder." Tada Chimako explores the modern-day ghosts of Kobe. Asada Jiro guides us across the rural, snowy expanses of Hokkaido. Atoda Takashi takes us to Kyoto to follow ...

Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals During the Interwar Years
J. Thomas Rimer

Princeton Univ Pr, 1990

This collection of essays represents the first attempt in this country to examine systematically the nature and development of modern Japanese self-consciousness as expressed through culture. The essays reveal eloquently the extent to which important aspects of Japanese intellectual life in the early twentieth century were inspired by European models of cultural criticism, ranging from Kant and Hegel to Nietzsche, Marx, Durkheim, and Bergson. ...

Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing

Columbia University Press, 1997

This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays.

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