Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900 / edited with introductions and commentary by Haruo Shirane.

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Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
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Series:Translations from the Asian classics
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Table of Contents:
  • Early modern Japan
  • Kana booklets and the emergence of a print culture
  • Ihara Saikaku and the books of the Floating World
  • Early haikai poetry and poetics
  • The poetry and prose of Matsuo Basho
  • Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the puppet theater
  • Confucian studies and literary perspectives
  • Confucianims in action : an autobiography of a Bakufu official
  • Chinese poetry and the literatus ideal
  • The golden age of puppet theater
  • Dangibon and the birth of Edo popular literature
  • Comic and satiric poetry
  • Literati meditations
  • Early yomihon : history, romance, and the supernatural
  • Eighteenth-century waka and nativist study
  • Sharebon : books of wit and fashion
  • Kibyoshi : satiric and didactic picture books
  • Kokkeibon : comic fiction for commoners
  • Ninjobon : sentimental fiction
  • - Gokan : extended picture books
  • Ghosts and nineteenth-century kabuki
  • Late yomihon : history and the supernatural revisited
  • Nativizing poetry and prose in Chinese
  • The miscellany
  • Early-nineteenth-century haiku
  • Waka in the Late Edo period
  • Rakugo.