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Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to ...

Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to ...

Haruo Shirane

For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man'yoshu, and the Kokinshu.
Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary

Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary

Haruo Shirane

The first of its kind, this volume is a vital tool for students, scholars, and translators of classical Japanese.
Classical Japanese: A Grammar

Classical Japanese: A Grammar

Haruo Shirane

In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive ...
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry ...

Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry ...

Haruo Shirane

Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical discussion of this critical figure by placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the ...
The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of the Tale of Genji

The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of the Tale of Genji

Haruo Shirane

The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece.
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

Haruo Shirane

Special thanks go to Tomoko Sakomura, who did extensive research on and wrote the legends for the ukiyo-e prints and for the kana-zōshi, jōruri, late ukiyo- zōshi, literati, kibyōshi, gōkan, late yomihon, and late kabuki illustrations. Melissa  ...
High-Tc Superconductivity 1996: Ten Years after the Discovery

High-Tc Superconductivity 1996: Ten Years after the Discovery

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