Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of...

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from ...

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays fro...

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions ...

For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness - th...

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates ...

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers f...

Twenty Plays of the N¿ Theatre

The Tso Chuan

When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogu...

In Japan, the diary has acquired the status of a literary genre comparable in importance to the n...

Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmar...

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830

A great, ancient art form, brought right up to date by one of Japan's foremost writers

Basati sulle conferenze che Donald Keene tenne alla New York Public Library, al Metropolitan Muse...

Japan's involvement in World War II and the Greater East Asia War provoked a range of reactions f...

Originally published in 1952, this account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan ha...

Five Modern Noh Plays brilliantly revives a great art form that has long fascinated audiences and...

This is an account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan from 1720 to 1830. These a...

An undisputed masterwork among Japanese photobooks, Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata's 'Kamaitach...

In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than ...

Mosaic of Thought Online Course available to all adopters of 25 copies or more of Mosaic of Thoug...

Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play

For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Ja...

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