Author: A. B. MitfordPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Tales of old Japan
Author: A. B. MitfordPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Japanese Tales
Author: Royall TylerPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307784061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan—tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese civilization. They ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, the ribald and the profound, offering a window into a long-vanished culture. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
The Catalpa Bow
Author: Carmen BlackerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135318727
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend.
Tales of Old Edo - Kaiki
Author: Robert WeinbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9784902075083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Japan has a long history of weird and supernatural literature, but it has been introduced into English only haphazardly until now. The first volume of a 3-volume anthology covering over two centuries of kaiki literature, including both short stories and manga, from Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari of 1776 to Kyogoku Natsuhiko's modern interpretations of popular tales. Selected and with commentary by Higashi Masao, a recognized researcher and author in the field, the series systemizes and introduces the scope of the field and helps establish it as a genre of its own. This first volume presents a variety of work focusing on pre-modern Japan, and includes one manga.
The Cambridge History of Japan
Author: John Whitney HallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521223546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Survey of the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Noh Plays of Japan
Author: Arthur WaleyPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462903630
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English. The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit and also provide the reader with an understanding of a unique theatre art and important insights into the cultural, spiritual and artistic traditions of Japan. The Noh Plays of Japan, first published in 1921 and justly famous for more than three-quarters of a century, established the Noh play for the Western reader as beautiful literature. It contains Arthur Waley's exquisite translations of nineteen plays and summaries of sixteen more, together with a revealing introductory essay that furnishes the background for a clear understanding and a genuine appreciation of the Noh as a highly significant dramatic form. Noh plays live on as a magnificent artistic heritage handed down from the high culture of medieval Japan. Among the major types of Japanese drama, the Noh, which is often called the classical theatre of Japan, has had perhaps the greatest attraction for the West. Introduced to Europe and America through the translations of Arthur Waley and Ezra Pound, it found an ardent admirer in William Butler Yeats, who described it as a form of drama "distinguished, indirect, and symbolic" and created plays in its image.
British Books
Author: A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End
Author: T. BosePublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844817
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.