The Columbia anthology of Japanese essays

zuihitsu from the tenth to the twenty-first century

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The Columbia anthology of Japanese essays

zuihitsu from the tenth to the twenty-first century

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Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century
2014, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Beginnings. The pillow book / Sei Shonagon
Essays in idleness / Yoshida No Kenko
The Late Medieval Era. Conversations with Shotetsu / Shotetsu
"To unify the nation and restore civil society" / Ichijo Kaneyoshi
"Cottage of dreams" and "Three loves" / Shohaku
A Tenbun miscellany / The Fujiwara Lay Monk
The Edo period. Laughs to keep you awake / Anrakuan Sakuden
"On Ohara" / Kinoshita Choshoshi
Haikai prose / Matsuo Basho
Amusements / Amenomori Hoshu
Window musings / Matsuzaki Kanran
A miscellany of stories / Morita Morimasa
Chats with myself / Dazai Shundai
Jeweled comb basket / Motoori Norinaga
Idle chats beneath a northern window / Tachibana Nankei
Blossoms and the moon / Matsudaira Sadanobu
Year by year: a miscellany / Ishiwara Masaakira
Behind the koto / Murata Harumi
Shunparo's jottings / Shiba Kokan
Unusual people of the modern age and Kanden's crop of jottings / Ban Kokei
Hoary stories / Tadano Makuzu
Haikai prose / Natsume Seibi
Clouds of floating grasses
The Modern Period. Autumn ensemble / Higuchi Ichiyo
"A cat's grave" and "London fog" / Natsume Soseki
"Snow" / Tokutomi Roka
"Desk" / Tayama Katai
"Fireworks" / Nagai Kafu
"Laughter" / Terada Torahiko
"Various thoughts on the Great Kanto earthquake" and "my moral precepts for everyday life" / Kikuchi Kan
"Master Hyakken's idle fantasies," "Bumpy road," and "A long fence" / Uchida Hyakken
"The image of an author" / Dazai Osamu
"Baby sparrow," "Turtledoves," and "Morning glories" / Shiga Naoya
Esprit and humor / Kawamori Yoshizo
"Sleepless nights" and "A bed for my books" / Osaragi Jiro
"On being down with a cold" / Kawakami Tetsutaro
"The road" / Shono Junzo
"Kitchen," "Raindrops," and "A memento of the season" / Koda Aya
"On surgery" and "Rainy day" / Kono Taeko
"Looking for gloves" / Mukoda Kuniko
One, we count, then / Takenishi Hiroko
Sunday musings / Hiraiwa Yumie
"Dust mogul" and other short essays / Dekune Tatsuro
"Myna bird" / Kizaki Satoko
"Concerning the order of culture" / Shiroyama Saburo
"On zuihitsu" / Sakai Junko.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Japanese.

Other Titles
Japanese essays

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
895.64
Library of Congress
PL772 .C65 2014, PL772.C65 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 540 pages
Number of pages
540

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Open Library
OL27207306M
ISBN 10
0231167717, 0231167709
ISBN 13
9780231167710, 9780231167703
LCCN
2014012763
OCLC/WorldCat
863195542

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