Izumi Kyoka (1872-1939) wrote some 300 stories, plays, and essays. In the first book-length study in English of Kyoka, Charles Shiro Inouye argues that his writings were a refinement of a vision that came into focus around 1900. This narrative archetype formed the aesthetic and ethical bases of his work. Kyoka does not fit the conventional story of Japanese literary modernization. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he did not jettison the Japanese literary tradition in favor of modernist imports from the West. The highly visual mode of figuration that was Kyoka's compromise with the demands of literary modernism allows us to see the continuation of Edo culture in the Japanese modern and expand our understanding of literary reform in the early twentieth century.

The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Koyka (1873-1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Literature & Fiction

Inouye, Charles Shiro

History & Criticism

Harvard University Asia Center

Emphasizing spoken Japanese, this book/cassette program offers training in comprehending and forming the sounds of spoken words and phrases. The basic Japanese sounds are made clear, as are special problems of Japanese intonation. 2 cassettes.

Pronounce It Perfectly in Japanese

Barrons Educational Series

<p>The needs of travellers who want to learn basic words and phrases to help them get around in a foreign country are accommodated in this handbook. The book is accompanied by 2 sixty minute audio cassettes.</p>

Getting by in Japanese: A Quick Beginner's Course for Tourists and Business People (Getting by Language Series) (English and Japanese Edition)

Children's Books

Havuna, Makiko

Education & Reference

In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka

In Light of Shadows is the long-awaited second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taishô writer Izumi Kyôka. It includes the famous novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, antipsychological story "Mayu kakushi no rei" (A quiet obsession), and Kyôka’s hauntingly erotic final work, "Rukôshinsô" (The heartvine), as well as critical discussions of each of these three tales. Translator Charles Inouye places Kyôka’s "literature of shadows" (kage no bungaku) within a worldwide gothic tradition even as he refines its Japanese context. Underscoring Kyôka’s relevance for a contemporary international audience, Inouye adjusts Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s evaluation of Kyôka as the most Japanese of authors by demonstrating how the writer’s paradigm of the suffering heroine can be linked to his exposure to Christianity, to a beautiful American woman, and to the aesthetic of blood sacrifice.In Light of Shadows masterfully conveys the magical allusiveness and elliptical style of this extraordinary writer, who Mishima Yukio called "the only genius of modern Japanese letters."

In Light Of Shadows: More Gothic Tales By Izumi Kyoka

IZUMI, KYOKA

Univ of Hawaii Pr

<p>Environmental decline, political gridlock, war and rumors of war, decadence, and immorality. The End of the World, Plan B traces the idea of the end, or destruction, of the world through a number of spiritual traditions. It shows that our present understanding of the "end game" has been distorted by a modern emphasis and demand on justice as the ultimate good. As an alternative to this self-destructive approach, Charles Shirō Inouye shows that in these traditions, justice is not the isolated end in itself that we ought strive for; rather it is taught in tandem with its balancing companion: compassion. Plan B is a hopeful alternative to our fears about how things are going.</p>

The End of the World, Plan B: A Guide for the Future

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Greg Kofford Books, Inc.

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