Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of

Description: In Japan, the diary has acquired the status of a literary genre comparable in importance to the novel and the literary essay. Donald Keene, hailed in the "New York Times Book Review" as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature," presents a collection of pre-modern Japanese diaries that is both a literary history of this seminal genre and a source of insight into Japanese life of the last thousand years. Ranging from objective to confessional, selections such as "The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu" and "Diaries of Seventeenth-Century Courtiers" are much more than mere narratives of events, and offer unparalleled glimpses into the lives of diverse writers from the Kamakura dynastic period to the Tokugawa period. "Travelers of a Hundred Ages" illuminates the hidden and largely unknown worlds of imperial courts, Buddhist monasteries, country inns, and merchants' houses. It is at once an intimate account of the diarists' lives and a testimony to the greater struggles and advances of Japanese culture.

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EAN: 9780231114370

UPC: 9780231114370

ISBN: 9780231114370

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Book Title: Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revea

Number of Pages: 480 Pages

Publication Name: Travelers of a Hundred Ages : the Japanese As Revealed Through 1000 Years of Diaries

Language: English

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Item Height: 1.4 in

Subject: Asian / General, Asia / Japan

Publication Year: 1999

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 29.1 Oz

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Donald Keene

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback