Description This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane\'s popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource.
With Columbia University Press, he has published Traditional Japanese Literature
Classical Japanese: A Grammar
Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary; and Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production..
About the Author Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University and author of The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji and Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory and the Poetry of Basho.
They will also find Shirane\'s introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.
Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology\'s selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works.
It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu\'s puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki.
The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment).
Description This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane\'s popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource
