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1	Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop more books like this by Ellin Oliver Keene, Susan Zimmermann, Donald H Graves (Foreword by) add to wishlist How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
2	Sources of Japanese Tradition more books like this by William Theodore de Bary (Editor) add to wishlist Volume 1 addresses the development, through the eighteenth century, of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Anthology of Japanese literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century more books like this by Donald Keene (Editor) add to wishlist The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene places the selections in their proper historical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.70! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers more books like this by Professor Donald Keene (Translator) add to wishlist Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perennially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written in the eighteenth century as a puppet play, it is now best known through Kabuki theater performances.This edition includes a new preface, introduction, and notes. see all copies from $4.93! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 1: From Earliest Times to 1600 more books like this by Professor Donald Keene (Editor), George J Tanabe, Jr. (Editor), Paul H Varley (Editor) add to wishlist Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the editors have revised or retranslated most of the texts in the original 1958 edition, and added a ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $35.65! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist Noted historian Keene draws years of research from across the globe together for his study of the Emperor Meiji and the world he ruled. Using official records as well as the emperor's own writings and poems, Keene paints a portrait of a ruler who is remembered both for modernizing Japan and being the first Japanese ruler to meet a European. see all copies from $3.55! new only from $20.64! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist -- Los Angeles Times see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
8	World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist -- Kirkus Reviews see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist -- The New Yorker see all copies from $3.42! new only from $13.97! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Modern Japanese Lit. more books like this by Professor Donald Keene (Editor) add to wishlist Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers, as well as a historical introduction by Professor Keene. ... see all copies from $4.19! new only from $9.56! \| SVS
11 view cover	Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist In Japan, the diary has acquired the status of a literary genre comparable in importance to the novel and the literary essay. Donald Keene, hailed in the "New York Times Book Review" as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature," presents a collection of pre-modern Japanese diaries that is both a literary history of this seminal genre ... see all copies from $2.17! new only from $5.97! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja: A Donald Keene Anthology more books like this by Professor Donald Keene, Professor J Thomas Rimer (Editor) add to wishlist The preeminent Western authority on Japanese literature a presents a collection of personal essays and literary vignettes that offers a fresh and personal insight into his prolific career as a writer and translator, traveler and social observer. see all copies from $5.92! new only from $35.10! \| first editions
13	Essays in Idleness, Tsurezuregu more books like this by Kenko, Donald Keene (Translator), Nishikawa Sukenobu (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.22!
14 view cover	Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko more books like this by Professor Donald Keene (Translator), Kenko Yoshida add to wishlist Written sometime between 1330 and 1332, the "Essays in Idleness" hardly mirror the turbulent times in which they were born. Despite the struggle between the Emperor Go-Daigo and the usurping Hojo family which rocked Japan during these years, the Buddhist priest Kenko found himself "with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever ... see all copies from $12.25! new only from $28.17! \| first editions
15 view cover	Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist This is the first book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture and literature, complete with an appendix, glossary, index, a selected list of translations into English, and an introduction. see all copies from $20.33! new only from $72.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 1: From Earliest Times to 1600 more books like this by William Theodore De Bary (Editor), Professor Donald Keene (Editor), George J Tanabe, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the editors have revised or retranslated most of the texts in the original 1958 edition, and added a ... see all copies from $15.58! new only from $82.74! \| SVS
17	Anthology of Japanese Literature: Earliest Era to Mid-Nineteenth Century more books like this by Professor Donald Keene (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18 view cover	Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad as Revealed Through Their Diaries more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist "Modern Japanese Diaries" is a collection of journals written by Japanese who journeyed to America, Europe, and China between 1860 and 1920. It begins with entries by the first Japanese to be sent abroad when the country ended more than 200 years of isolation. Faithfully kept day to day, the diaries record personal yet overarching views of various ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Pleasures of Japanese Literature more books like this by Professor Donald Keene, William Theodore de Bary (Editor) add to wishlist Aimed at the general reader, this introduction to Japanese literature assumes no previous knowledge of Japanese culture. The author presents a series of essays which provide an overview of pre-modern Japanese poetry and fiction, as well as theatre and aesthetics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.50! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist see all copies from $9.99! first editions
21 view cover	On Familiar Terms: A Journey Across Cultures more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist The intimate memoirs of the renowned scholar who "discovered" modern Japanese literature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Twenty Plays of the No Theatre more books like this by Professor Donald Keene (Editor), Royall Tyler (Translator) add to wishlist -- The New York Times Book Review see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Five Modern Japanese Novelists more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist "The New Yorker" has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. "Five Modern Japanese Novelists" profiles five prominent writers whom ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 more books like this by Professor Donald Keene add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.41! \| first editions
25 view cover	Living Japan more books like this by Donald Keene add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $19.91! \| first editions \| SVS

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