Introduces Japanese culture, and discusses the aesthetics, poetry, fiction, and theater of Japan

Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered the leading interpreter of that nation's literature to the Wester

Donald Keene's definitive history of modern Japanese literature is an achievement beyond the range and scope of any other western writer.

In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers releas

This is a graded reader for Japanese literature. There are 7 stories, 4 by Soseki and 3 by Akutagawa, representing 3 different reading levels. In each case the