A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies
Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period
A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists
Six short stories by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), capturing the breadth of his literary oeuvre
Four short stories by master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, newly translated into English
Examines the origins and influence of three popular anti-Kirishitan (anti-Christian) works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century
A multi-faceted look at the life and milieu of a mid-eighteenth-century aesthete
Explores the relationship between Japan and France and the development of postwar national and individual identities
The first English translation of a monumental literary history of Japan
An analysis of the narrative and tropological structure of classical Japanese Noh plays
The first book-length study in English of the fiction of Murakami Haruki
A brilliant evocation of Shanghai as a city in turmoil by one of Japan’s most influential avant-garde writers of the 1920s and ’30s
The first work in any language to focus on the plays of Izumi Kyoka, a major literary figure in modern Japan
Dark and haunting stories of young men whose universal desires and anxieties are overshadowed by memories of the brutality of war
A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies
Compelling poetry that constitutes a major legacy of the nuclear age
Proceedings of a landmark international symposium bringing together scholars of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century
The first English translation of a powerful Japanese novel set in the Ginza bar scene of the 1950s
Translations and readings of some of the most important modern Japanese poems written for and against war
Readings and translations of Japanese literature from the 19th and 20th centuries by former students honoring Edwin McClellan
A memorial collection of essays and translations demonstrating the diversity of ways of reading Japanese literature
A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists
Readings and translations of Japanese literature from the eleventh century to the 1980s by former students honoring Edward Seidensticker