Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition)

Edited by Haruo Shirane

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Paper, 552 pages, Numerous woodcut prints to be reproduced from previous edition.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14415-5
$32.50 / £22.50

abridged edition
April, 2008
Cloth, 552 pages, Numerous woodcut prints to be reproduced from previous edition.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14414-8
University of Tokyo Press
$90.00 / £62.00

Preface

Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters

1. Early Modern Japan

2. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World

3. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho

4. Chikamatsu Monsaemon and the Puppet Theater

5. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater

6. Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature

7. Comic and Satiric Poetry

8. Literati Meditations

9. Early Yomihon: History, Romance, and the Supernatural

10. Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion

11. Kibyoshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books

12. Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners

13. Ninjobon: Sentimental Fiction

14. Gokan: Extended Picture Books

15. Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki

16. Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Reference

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University and author of The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji and Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory and the Poetry of Basho. With Columbia University Press, he has published Traditional Japanese Literature; Classical Japanese: A Grammar; Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary; and Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production.

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