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. 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). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. 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. 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.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 552
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
21 April 2008
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.12 in
ISBN: 9780231144155
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, REFERENCE / Research
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.
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. 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.
Preface
Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters
1. Early Modern Japan
2. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World
3. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho
4. Chikamatsu Monsaemon and the Puppet Theater
5. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater
6. Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature
7. Comic and Satiric Poetry
8. Literati Meditations
9. Early Yomihon: History, Romance, and the Supernatural
10. Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion
11. Kibyoshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books
12. Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners
13. Ninjobon: Sentimental Fiction
14. Gokan: Extended Picture Books
15. Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki
16. Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited
