Though banned shortly after its publication in 1909, VITA SEXUALIS is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education, and the proper place of sensuality. His story explores his own journey into sexual awareness. Yet, beyond being a poignant account of one boy's ...
Japanese storytelling in different modes - The Novella Romaji Diary represents the first instance of a Japanese writer using romaji - roman script - to relate stories in non- kana or kanji format - Sad Toys is a collection of 194 Tanka, the traditional 31-syllable poems that evoke Japan's misty past - Another in the series of Tuttle Classics of ...
The literary writings of Mori Ogai (1862-1922), one of the giant figures of the Meiji period, have become increasingly well known to readers of English through a number of recent translations of his novels and short stories. Ogai was more than a writer of fiction, however. He has long been regarded in Japan as one of the most influential ...
A collection of experimental Japanese poetry in original Japanese script and precise English translations, this volume also includes reference notes, biographical, historical, linguistic and cultural information on author Shiki Masaoka.
Japan's Taisho era (1912-26) was a period of widespread unrest and radical change. Socialists were demanding the end of the class system; anarchists were calling for the overthrow of the government; a feminist movement had announced the birth of the "new woman". In the middle of all this turbulence was a woman barely out of high school, Noe Ito. ...
SIXTY SUNFLOWERS: Tanka Society of America Members' Anthology for 2006-2007, edited by Sanford Goldstein. Other titles in this series published by the Tanka Society of America (tankasocietyofamerica.com): something like a sigh (2005), Jeanne Emrich, Guest Editor, Cathy Drinkwater Better, Editor-in-Chief; To Find the Moon (2004), Cathy Drinkwater ...
This book is a tanka treasure chest, filled with nearly five hundred poems by the acknowledged master of the genre, Sanford Goldstein. Not only has Goldstein, with his translating partners, made the classics of modern Japanese poetry available in English, he has written some of the best tanka ever rendered first in English. Six published ...
Arishima Takeo spent four years in the United States studying and working at the turn of the century. He was one of the first Japanese men to do so. This book is a culmination of his experiences in a totally new, totally strange Western society.
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