Title Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900 / edited with introductions and commentary by Haruo Shirane ; translators, James Brandon ... [et al.]
Publication Info New York : Columbia University Press, c2002
Location Call Number Status
 Asian Art Library  PL782.E1 E23 2002    REQUESTABLE
 Offsite  PL782.E1 E23 2002    REQUESTABLE
Description xxiv, 1027 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Series Translations from the Asian classics
Contents 1. Early Modern Japan -- The Shogunate and the Domains -- The Social Hierarchy -- The Economy and the Three Cities -- The Licensed Quarters -- The Courtesans and Female Entertainers -- Literacy, Scholarship, and Printing -- Women, Readership, and Literature -- Warrior and Urban Commoner Attitudes -- Popular and Elite Literatures -- Periodization -- 2. Kana Booklets and the Emergence of a Print Culture -- Parodies -- The Dog Pillow Book -- Fake Tales -- Humorous Stories -- Today's Tales of Yesterday -- Asai Ryoi -- Tales of the Floating World -- Hand Puppets -- Military Stories -- O-An's Stories -- 3. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World -- Ihara Saikaku -- Life of a Sensuous Man -- Saikaku's Tales from Various Provinces -- Five Sensuous Women -- Life of a Sensuous Woman -- Great Mirror of Male Love -- Tales of Samurai Duty -- Japan's Eternal Storehouse -- Worldly Mental Calculations -- Ejima Kiseki and the Hachimonjiya -- Characters of Old Men in the Floating World -- 4. Early Haikai Poetry and Poetics -- Matsunaga Teitoku and the Teimon School -- Kitamura Kigin -- The Mountain Well -- Nishiyama Soin and Donrin Haikai -- Okanishi Ichu -- Haikai Primer -- 5. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho -- Basho and the Art of Haikai -- Composing Haiku -- The Art of Linked Verse -- Withering Gusts -- Plum Blossom Scent -- The Poetics of Haiku -- Haibun -- The Hut of the Phantom Dwelling -- Narrow Road to the Deep North -- 6. Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the Puppet Theater -- Early Joruri and Kabuki -- Chikamatsu Monzaemon -- The Love Suicides at Sonezaki -- The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa -- The Battles of Coxinga -- The Heike and the Island of Women -- The Love Suicides at Amijima -- Hozumi Ikan -- Souvenirs of Naniwa -- 7. Confucian Studies and Literary Perspectives -- Song Confucianism -- Dialogue with the Elder -- Confucian Views of Literature -- Japanese Lesser Learning -- Seven Essays on Murasaki Shikibu -- Chinese Studies and Literary Perspectives -- The Meaning of Words in the Analects and the Mencius -- Postscript to The Collected Works of Bo Juyi -- Questions from Children -- Essentials for Reading the Book of Songs -- Master Sorai's Teachings -- 8. Confucianism in Action: An Autobiography of a Bakufu Official -- The Kyoho Era (1716-1736) -- Arai Hakuseki -- Record of Breaking and Burning Brushwood -- 9. Chinese Poetry and the Literatus Ideal -- Hattori Nankaku -- "Traveling Down the Sumida River at Night" -- Jottings of Master Nankaku Under the Lamplight -- "Responding to the Lord of Goose Lake" -- Gion Nankai -- "The Fisherman" -- Encountering the Origins of Poetry -- 10. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater -- Takeda Izumo, Namiki Sosuke, and Miyoshi Shoraku -- Chushingura: The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers -- Namiki Sosuke -- Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani -- Suga Sensuke -- Gappo at the Crossroads -- 11. Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature -- Jokanbo Koa -- Modern-Style Lousy Sermons -- Hiraga Gennai -- Rootless Weeds -- The Modern Life of Shidoken -- "A Theory of Farting" -- 12. Comic and Satiric Poetry -- Senryu -- Kyoka -- Kyoshi -- 13. Literati Meditations -- Yosa Buson -- Preface to Shoha's Haiku Collection -- "Mourning the Old Sage Hokuju" -- "Spring Breeze on the Kema Embankment" -- New Flower Gathering -- Takebe Ayatari -- Tales from This Time and That -- 14. Early Yomihon: History, Romance, and the Supernatural -- Ueda Akinari -- Tales of Moonlight and Rain -- 15. Eighteenth-Century Waka and Nativist Study -- Debate on the Eight Points of Japanese Poetry -- Eight Points of Japanese Poetry -- My Views on the Eight Points of Japanese Poetry -- Another Reply to Toyasu Munetake -- Kamo no Mabuchi -- Thoughts on Poetry -- Motoori Norinaga -- "A Small Boat Punting Through the Reeds" -- My Personal View of Poetry -- The Essence of The Tale of Genji -- The Tale of Genji, a Small Jeweled Comb -- The Spirit of the Gods -- First Steps in the Mountains -- 16. Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion -- The Playboy Dialect -- Santo Kyoden -- Forty-Eight Techniques for Success with Courtesans -- 17. Kibyoshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books -- Koikawa Harumachi -- Mr. Glitter 'n' Gold's Dream of Splendor -- Santo Kyoden -- Grilled and Basted Edo-Born Playboy -- Fast-Dyeing Mind Study -- 18. Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners -- Jippensha Ikku -- Travels on the Eastern Seaboard -- Shikitei Sanba -- Floating-World Bathhouse -- 19. Ninjobon: Sentimental Fiction -- Tamenaga Shunsui -- Spring-Color Plum Calendar -- 20. Gokan: Extended Picture Books -- Ryutei Tanehiko -- A Country Genji by a Commoner Murasaki -- 21. Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki -- Tsuruya Nanboku -- Ghost Stories at Yotsuya -- 22. Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited -- Kyokutei Bakin -- The Eight Dog Chronicles -- 23. Nativizing Poetry and Prose in Chinese -- Yamamoto Hokuzan -- Thoughts on Composing Poetry -- Kan Chazan -- Rai Sanyo -- The Unofficial History of Japan -- Ryokan -- 24. The Miscellany -- Matsudaira Sadanobu -- Blossoms and the Moon -- 25. Early-Nineteenth-Century Haiku -- Kobayashi Issa -- Journal of My Father's Last Days -- My Spring -- 26. Waka in the Late Edo Period -- Ozawa Roan -- The Ancient Middle Road Through Furu -- Objections to New Learning -- Tachibana Akemi -- Okuma Kotomichi -- Words to Myself -- 27. Rakugo -- Sanyutei Encho -- Peony Lantern Ghost Story
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [969]-981) and index
Subjects Japanese literature -- Translations into English.
Additional Authors Shirane, Haruo, 1951-
Brandon, James R.
Series Translations from the Asian classics.
ISBN 0231109903 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC 48084101