Description
Essential essays by the inimitable Donald Richie, who wrote on with unparalled acuity on Japanese art and culture.
No one has written more, or more artfully, about Japan and Japanese culture than Donald Richie. Richie moved to Tokyo just after World War II. And he is still there, still writing.
This book is the first compilation of the best of Richie's writings on Japan, with excerpts from his critical work on film (Richie helped introduce Japanese film to the West in the late 1950s) and his unpublished private journal, plus fiction, Zen musings, and masterful essays on culture, travel, people, and style. With a critical introduction and full bibliography.
Details
- Price: $19.95
- Pages: 276
- Carton Quantity: 26
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date: 1st June 2001
- Trim Size: 7 x 8.8 in
- Illustration Note: 24 B&W photographs
- ISBN: 9781880656617
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
TRAVEL / Asia / Japan
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Reviews
“To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound.”
– Japanese Language and Literature
Author Bio
Essential essays by the inimitable Donald Richie, who wrote on with unparalled acuity on Japanese art and culture.
No one has written more, or more artfully, about Japan and Japanese culture than Donald Richie. Richie moved to Tokyo just after World War II. And he is still there, still writing.
This book is the first compilation of the best of Richie's writings on Japan, with excerpts from his critical work on film (Richie helped introduce Japanese film to the West in the late 1950s) and his unpublished private journal, plus fiction, Zen musings, and masterful essays on culture, travel, people, and style. With a critical introduction and full bibliography.
- Price: $19.95
- Pages: 276
- Carton Quantity: 26
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date: 1st June 2001
- Trim Size: 7 x 8.8 in
- Illustrations Note: 24 B&W photographs
- ISBN: 9781880656617
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
TRAVEL / Asia / Japan
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
“To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound.”
– Japanese Language and Literature