The Soil

by Takashi Nagatsuka, Ann Waswo (Translator)

Overview

Nagatsuka Takashi's novel The Soil, published in Japan in 1910, provides a moving and sensitive but unsentimental portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. The community described is the author's native place, and the characters whose lives are described in vivid detail over a period of years are drawn from life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520083721
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	01/29/1994
Series:	Voices from Asia , #8
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ann Waswo is University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of St. Antony's College, she is the author of Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite (California, 1977).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Translator's Introduction
Glossary of Japanese Terms
The Soil
Translator's Note