Modern Japanese Stories

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-04-15
Publisher(s): Tuttle Pub
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Summary

This collection shows the qualities that make Japanese literature among the world's finest. Including Under Reconstruction, considered to be the first modern Japanese short story, this book presents the short stories of Japan as among the world's most satisfying. Edited by Ivan Morris, a recognized authority on Japanese literature, Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology is a volume of the highest quality and fidelity.

Author Biography

Books written and edited by Ivan Morris include Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan, and As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9(26)
Under Reconstruction
35(10)
Mori Ogai
Order of the White Paulownia
45(20)
Tokuda Shusei
Hydrangea
65(16)
Nagai Kafu
Seibei's Gourds
81(9)
Shiga Naoya
Tattoo
90(11)
Tanizaki Junichiro
On the Conduct of Lord Tadanao
101(37)
Kikuchi Kan
The Camellia
138(6)
Satomi Ton
Brother and Sister
144(18)
Muro Saisei
The House of a Spanish Dog
162(11)
Sato Haruo
``Autumn Mountain''
173(12)
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Handstand
185(19)
Ogawa Mimei
Letter Found in a Cement-Barrel
204(7)
Hayama Yoshiki
The Charcoal Bus
211(12)
Ibuse Masuji
Machine
223(22)
Yokomitsu Ruchi
The Moon on the Water
245(13)
Kawabata Yasunari
Nightingale
258(44)
Ito Einosuke
Morning Mist
302(18)
Nagai Tatsuo
The Hateful Age
320(29)
Niwa Fumio
Downtown
349(16)
Hayashi Fumiko
A Man's Life
365(18)
Hirabayashi Taiko
The Idiot
383(33)
Sakaguchi Ango
Shotgun
416(36)
Inoue Yasushi
Tiger-Poet
452(12)
Nakajima Ton
The Courtesy Call
464(17)
Dazai Osamu
The Priest and His Love
481(22)
Mishima Yukio
Selected Bibliography 503(7)
Index of Authors 510(1)
Index of Translators 511

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