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This volume has much to offer both students and scholars of Japanese theatre.
There has quite simply never been a collection like this one. It's an experience not to be missed, and it will give pleasure to many.
This volume provides a cornucopia of early modern Japanese texts, from high to low, the cool reason of philosophy and literary criticism to 'hot' fiction for popular consumption, Rai Sanyo's history to Chikamatsu's historical drama, kanshi to haiku, autobiography to ghost stories. On the basis of this volume alone, one can mount a comprehensive course in Edo literature.
— Julie Iezzi
This anthology stands alone. It is the first comprehensive anthology of early modern literature. The richness of content allows it to fulfill many different purposes...This volume provides a wealth of material.
This book will become an indispensable reference, not only for students of Edo literature but also for those who have an interest in Japanese culture in general.
This single volume from Columbia University Press has the bulk and the breadth to introduce to the full scope of Edo literature to the English-speaking world.
— Robert N. Huey
This book will become an indispensable reference, not only for students of Edo literature but also for those who have an interest in Japanese culture in general.
Shirane has given us so many angles from which to view this unique society that before long we almost feel we have joined it.
— Haruko G. Iwasaki
[This] will serve as the standard anthology for some time to come.
| 1 | Early modern Japan | 1 |
| 2 | Kana booklets and the emergence of a print culture | 21 |
| 3 | Ihara Saikaku and the books of the floating world | 42 |
| 4 | Early Haikai poetry and poetics | 170 |
| 5 | The poetry and prose of Matsuo Basho | 178 |
| 6 | Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the puppet theater | 233 |
| 7 | Confucian studies and literary perspectives | 352 |
| 8 | Confucianism in action : an autobiography of a Bakufu official | 371 |
| 9 | Chinese poetry and the literatus ideal | 382 |
| 10 | The golden age of puppet theater | 389 |
| 11 | Dangibon and the birth of Edo popular literature | 449 |
| 12 | Comic and satiric poetry | 520 |
| 13 | Literati meditations | 538 |
| 14 | Early yomihon : history, romance, and the supernatural | 563 |
| 15 | Eighteenth-century waka and nativist study | 599 |
| 16 | Sharebon : books of wit and fashion | 631 |
| 17 | Kibyoshi : satiric and didactic picture books | 672 |
| 18 | Kokkeibon : comic fiction for commoners | 730 |
| 19 | Ninjobon : sentimental fiction | 760 |
| 20 | Gokan : extended picture books | 800 |
| 21 | Ghosts and nineteenth-century kabuki | 843 |
| 22 | Late yomihon : history and the supernatural revisited | 885 |
| 23 | Nativizing poetry and prose in Chinese | 910 |
| 24 | The miscellany | 925 |
| 25 | Early-nineteenth-century haiku | 932 |
| 26 | Waka in the late Edo period | 947 |
| 27 | Rakugo | 961 |
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