Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
Early Modern Japanese Literature introduces English readers to an unprecedented range of prose fiction genres, including dangibon (satiric sermons), kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon (reading books), kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). The anthology offers a rich array of poetry - waka, haiku, senryu, kyoka, kyoshi - and eleven plays that range from contemporary domestic drama to...
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This unique anthology is the first representative collection of Japanese literature from one of the most creative periods in Japanese culture, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa. It includes a wide range of fiction, poetry, and drama, and also essays, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works with a number of new translations.
1Early modern Japan12Kana booklets and the emergence of a print culture213Ihara Saikaku and the books of the floating world424Early Haikai poetry and poetics1705The poetry and prose of Matsuo Basho1786Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the puppet theater2337Confucian studies and literary perspectives3528Confucianism in action : an autobiography of a Bakufu official3719Chinese poetry and the literatus ideal38210The golden age of puppet theater38911Dangibon and the birth of Edo popular literature44912Comic and satiric poetry52013Literati meditations53814Early yomihon : history, romance, and the supernatural56315Eighteenth-century waka and nativist study59916Sharebon : books of wit and fashion63117Kibyoshi : satiric and didactic picture books67218Kokkeibon : comic fiction for commoners73019Ninjobon : sentimental fiction76020Gokan : extended picture books80021Ghosts and nineteenth-century kabuki84322Late yomihon : history and the supernatural revisited88523Nativizing poetry and prose in Chinese91024The miscellany92525Early-nineteenth-century haiku93226Waka in the late Edo period94727Rakugo961
\ Asian Theatre Journal\ - Julie Iezzi\ This volume has much to offer both students and scholars of Japanese theatre.\ \ \ \ \ \ Asian Theatre JournalThis volume has much to offer both students and scholars of Japanese theatre.\ — Julie Iezzi\ \ \ \ Monumenta Nipponica\ - Robert N. Huey\ This anthology stands alone. It is the first comprehensive anthology of early modern literature. The richness of content allows it to fulfill many different purposes...This volume provides a wealth of material.\ \ \ \ \ \ Asian Studies Review\ - Hiroko Kobayashi\ This book will become an indispensable reference, not only for students of Edo literature but also for those who have an interest in Japanese culture in general.\ \ \ \ \ \ The Journal of Asian Studies\ - Haruko G. Iwasaki\ This single volume from Columbia University Press has the bulk and the breadth to introduce to the full scope of Edo literature to the English-speaking world.\ \ \ \ \ \ Monumenta NipponicaThis anthology stands alone. It is the first comprehensive anthology of early modern literature. The richness of content allows it to fulfill many different purposes...This volume provides a wealth of material.\ — Robert N. Huey\ \ \ \ \ \ Asahi.comShirane has given us so many angles from which to view this unique society that before long we almost feel we have joined it.\ \ \ \ \ \ The Journal of Asian StudiesThis single volume from Columbia University Press has the bulk and the breadth to introduce to the full scope of Edo literature to the English-speaking world.\ — Haruko G. Iwasaki\ \ \ \ \ \ Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies[This] will serve as the standard anthology for some time to come.\ \ \ \ \ \ Asian Studies ReviewThis book will become an indispensable reference, not only for students of Edo literature but also for those who have an interest in Japanese culture in general.\ \ \ \ \ \ Thomas RimerThere has quite simply never been a collection like this one. It's an experience not to be missed, and it will give pleasure to many.\ \ \ \ \ \ Sonja ArntzenThis volume provides a cornucopia of early modern Japanese texts, from high to low, the cool reason of philosophy and literary criticism to 'hot' fiction for popular consumption, Rai Sanyo's history to Chikamatsu's historical drama, kanshi to haiku, autobiography to ghost stories. On the basis of this volume alone, one can mount a comprehensive course in Edo literature.\ \ \
