«El aspecto más precioso de la vida es su incertidumbre». A partir de estas palabras de un monje budista del siglo XIV, Donald Keene, una de las mayores autoridades en Occidente sobre cultura japonesa, ofrece una elegante y sutil aproxi...
A superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction as well as a memoir of his own love affair with Japanese literature and culture, this volume consists of chapters on five modern Japanese novelists whom Donald Keene knew personally: Yasunari Kawabata, Yuki...
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 than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly...
Beginning with documents from the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate, the collections essays, manifestos, religious tracts, political documents, and memoirs reflect major Japanese religious, philosophical , social and political movements.
Concentrating on the pre-modern era between 1600 and 1867, this text provides a definitive history of Japanese literature. The text treats each of the new, popular genres that arose, including haiku, Kabuki, and the witty, urbane prose of the newly ascend...
Essays on Japanese diaries written from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries present a literary history of the art of journal writing in Japan while providing insight into Japanese life and culture