A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature.

A History of Japanese Literature: Vol.3: the Modern Years

Katō, Shūichi

Literature & Fiction

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Form, Style, Tradition: Reflections on Japanese Art and Society

University of California Press

This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey from the militarist era of prewar Japan to the dynamic postwar landscapes of Japan and Europe. This fluid translation of A Sheep's Song captures Kato's unique voice and brings his insightful interpretation of modern Japan and its tumultuous relations with the outside world to English-speaking readers for the first time. Kato describes his youthful interest in the natural sciences as well as in Japanese and Western literatures—from the Man'yoshu to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Baudelaire, Valéry, and Proust. Turning to the rise of Japanese fascism in the late 1930s, he recalls his rebellion against the jingoistic political atmosphere of the time. The chapters on the war and its aftermath include experiences of Hiroshima shortly after the bombing and the often tragicomic encounters between the defeated Japanese nation and the American Occupation forces. Throughout, memories of his wide-ranging literary career and broad experiences in Europe as a student, traveler, and cultural observer are punctuated by his unique perspectives on the relation between imagination, art, and politics. A postscript written especially for the English-language edition discusses the Vietnam War, the subsequent transformation of Japan, the cultures and societies of Europe, the United States, and China, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World

History & Criticism

culture ,heritage,spirit,art,crafts and philosophy of the Japanese People.

Japan Spirit & Form

Arts & Photography

Tuttle+publishing

A history of Japanese literature

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Kodansha International

Studies the development of Japanese literature from the folktales and poetry of the Age of the Manyoshu to the dramatic works of the Muromachi period ending in 1568, emphasizing its relation to social, cultural and intellectual developments

A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years

Kodansha USA Inc

Form, Style, Tradition: Reflections on Japanese Art and Society by Shuichi Kato (Paperback)

Studies the development of Japanese literature from the folktales and poetry of the Age of the Manyoshu to the dramatic works of the Muromachi period ending in 1568, emphasizing its relation to social, cultural and intellectual developments

A History of Japanese Literature: The Modern Years (English and Japanese Edition)

A History of Japanese Literature: From the Manyoshu to Modern Times

A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature.

A History of Japanese Literature

Sanderson, Don

Reference

Routledge

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A History of Japanese Literature: Vol.3: the Modern Years

Form, Style, Tradition: Reflections on Japanese Art and Society

A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World

Japan Spirit & Form

A history of Japanese literature

A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years

Form, Style, Tradition: Reflections on Japanese Art and Society

A History of Japanese Literature: The Modern Years (English and Japanese Edition)

A History of Japanese Literature

A History of Japanese Literature: From the Manyoshu to Modern Times