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6) Major plays
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Description
Eleven plays, including the most popular domestic tragedies and one history play, still performed in present-day Japan by puppet operators and Kabuki actors.
Author
Publisher
Charles E. Tuttle Company
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
"This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to...
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the life of the 12th century Samurai warrior, Minamoto Yoshitsune. This translation, that includes the oldest extant collection of stories (both historical and legendary), is both informative and a deeply moving adventure. Much Japanese literature is derivative of this story.
18) I am a cat
Author
Language
English
Description
Originally written as a 10-part serial in 1905-06 and later combined into one volume. I am a cat is considered by many to be Soseki's comic masterpiece as it pokes fun at the upper-middle class of Japanese society during the Meiji era. A nameless cat living with a schoolteacher comments on the on the follies and foibles of the people around him.
Author
Publisher
George Allen and Unwin Ltd
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
A novel of outspoken protest, 'Pillar of Fire' is unique in the literature of modern Japan. First published in 1904, when Japan embarked enthusiastically on a 'just' war against Russia, it stands uncompromisingly for peace and reconciliation with the Russian people, pleads for social justice to mitigate the cruel conditions which existed in so many of Japan's newly developed industries, and lampoons the greed and immorality of the authoritarian Establishment...
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