| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 243 pages) : illustrations |
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TWELVE VIEWS FROM THE DISTANCE; Contents; Note about Japanese Names; Chart of family Members; Translator's Introduction; PART I: TWELVE VIEWS FROM THE DISTANCE; Chapter 1: The Snow of Memory; Chapter 2: Grandma's House; Chapter 3: TalesofLongago; Chapter 4: Spirited Away; Chapter 5: On Mother's Back; Chapter 6: HeavenandHell; Chapter 7: The Various Types of Sea; Chapter8: PrincesandPaupers; Chapter 9: The Shore of Sexuality; Chapter 10: Skies of Blood; Chapter 11: Imagining Father; Communities outside the World; Afterword to the English Translation; Glossary |
| Summary |
From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy's childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II. Originally published in 1970, this translation is the first available in English. In twelve chapters that visit and revisit critical points in his boyhood, Twelve Views from the Distance presents a vanished time and place through the eyes of an accomplished poet. Recounting memories from his youth, Mutsuo Takahashi captures the full range of his internal life as a boy, shifting between hi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Takahashi, Mutsuo, 1937-
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| SUBJECT |
Takahashi, Mutsuo, 1937- fast |
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Poets, Japanese -- 20th century -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Poets, Japanese
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Angles, Jeffrey, 1971-
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| ISBN |
9780816682812 |
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081668281X |
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