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Tanizaki Jun'ichir? (1886–1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, andTwo Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers ofthe twentieth century. The four stories in …
Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyozoshi (Untitled …
Etsuko Terasaki considers the powerful religious-ideological role that Buddhism and the social and economic aspects of Kamakura and early Muromachi society played in framing the …
When the young Princess Sonshi became a Buddhist nun in the year 984, a scholar-official of the royal court was commissioned to create a guide to the Buddhist religion that would …
First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868-1912), it …
This study traces for the first time the full range of Akiko''s involvement with The Tale of Genji. Through her work Genji became, in fact as well as in name, an exemplum of that …
The field of Japanese literary studies in the United States is barely half a century old, and the number of scholars whose work has had a lasting impact on the contours of the …