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Japanese literature : manners and customs in the Meiji-Taishō era / compiled and edited by Kimura Ki ; translated and adapted [for an American audience] by Philip Yampolsky.

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Other Authors: Kimura, Ki, 1894-1979 (Compiler, Editor), Yampolsky, Philip B. (Philip Boas), 1920-1996 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Tokyo : Ōbunsha, [1957]
Series:Centenary Cultural Council series. History of Japanese-American cultural relations (1853-1926) ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Comparative literature > Japanese and American.
Comparative literature > American and Japanese.
Japan > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Japan.
Japanese literature > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > History and criticism.
Japanese literature > Taishō period, 1912-1926 > History and criticism.
Japanese literature > American influences.
Table of Contents:
  • Japan and the American Indians
  • Literature foretelling the opening of Japan
  • The first American in Japan
  • Perry and men of literature
  • Two young castaways
  • An American religious novel about Takayama Ukon
  • Whitman and Japan
  • Franklin and the Imperial Court
  • Longfellow and the new style poetry
  • The influence of Emerson
  • Chūshingura and Theodore Roosevelt
  • Tsubouchi Shōyō and American teachers of Shakespeare
  • Urashima and Rip van Whinkle
  • The Hyakunin Isshu and the cinquain
  • Haiku and imagism
  • An Indian poetess
  • The Americanization of Japanese customs.

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