No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Book
• The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and t... Lees meer

Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated ... Lees meer

Early Light

Osamu Dazai

• Hardcover | Engels | Storybook ND
• Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in th... Lees meer

Modern Japanese Literature

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered th... Lees meer

Chushingura

Takeda Izumo

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is a puppet play which represents major Asian traditions. A translation of the eighteenth-century Japanese drama. Chushingura (TheTreasury o... Lees meer

Seeds in the Heart

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | History of Japanese Literature
• Donald Keene employs his prodigious wealth of knowledge, critical insight, and narrative aplomb to guide readers through the first nine hundred years ... Lees meer

The Pleasures of Japanese Literature

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Companions to Asian Studies
• Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered the leading interpreter of that nation's literature to ... Lees meer

The Winter Sun Shines in

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorpora... Lees meer

World Within Walls

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | History of Japanese Literature | nr. 2
• The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than... Lees meer

Emperor of Japan

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more ... Lees meer

Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Dawn to the West
• The fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese cu... Lees meer

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720 - 1830

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: Japan
• Originally published in 1952, this account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan has been enlarged by two new chapters that extend the s... Lees meer

Los placeres de la literatura japonesa

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Spaans
• «El aspecto más precioso de la vida es su incertidumbre». A partir de estas palabras de un monje budista del siglo XIV, Donald Keene, una de las mayor... Lees meer

Five Modern Japanese Novelists

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels
• The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb ... Lees meer

Travelers of a Hundred Ages

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• Donald Keene, hailed in the New York Times Book Review as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature," presents here a collection of premode... Lees meer

Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated ... Lees meer

Chushingura (the Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perenially popu... Lees meer

Modern Japanese Diaries

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• This is a collection of journals written by Japanese men and women--from samurai and other government officials to novelists and poets--who journeyed ... Lees meer

Nō And Bunraku

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• Donald Keene combines informative works on two forms of classical Japanese theater into a single volume. The No text looks at all aspects of this trad... Lees meer

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among th... Lees meer

Emperor of Japan

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels
• When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more ... Lees meer

Chronicles of My Life

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels
• "I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, whic... Lees meer

Frog in the Well

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his imp... Lees meer

The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Book
• This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Lees meer