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Author Naff, William E.

Title The Kiso Road : the life and times of Shimazaki Tōson / William E. Naff ; edited by J. Thomas Rimer ; with a foreword by Janet A. Walker
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 664 pages)
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Contents Home and family: before 1872 -- Childhood and education: 1872-1892 -- A shaky start: 1892-1893 -- A poet's apprenticeship: 1893-1896 -- Escape to Sendai: 1896-1898 -- To Komoro: 1899-1900 -- From poetry to fiction: 1900-1904 -- A personal catastrophe, public triumph: 1905-1907 -- A bleak spring and a harsh summer: 1907- 1913 -- The French years: 1913-1916 -- A new life: 1916-1923 -- The open of the last act: 1923-1927 -- Before the dawn: 1927-1935 -- The final years: 1936-1943
Summary William E. Naff, the scholar of Japanese literature widely known for his translations of the writings of Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943), spent the last years of his life writing a full-length biography of Toson. The Kiso Road provides an account of this novelist who, along with Natsume Soseki and Mori Ogai, formed the triumvirate of writers regarded as giants in Meji Japan, all three of whom helped establish the parameters of modern Japanese literature. Professor Naff's biography places Toson in the context of his times and discusses every aspect of his career and personal life, as well as introducing a number of untranslated works
Toson's long life, his many connection with other important Japanese artist and intellectuals, his sojourn in France during World War I, and his later visit to South America, permit a biography of depth and detail that serves as a kind of cultural history of Japan during an often turbulent period
J. Thomas Rimer is professor emeritus of Japanese literature at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been the author, editor, of translator of many books, most recently two coedited volumes
Janet A. Walker is professor of comparative literature at Rutgers University. She has published essays on both classical and Japanese literature, on the novel, and on South Asian literature. --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-648) and index
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Subject Shimazaki, Tōson, 1872-1943.
SUBJECT Shimazaki, Tōson, 1872-1943 fast
Shimazaki, Tōson 1872-1943 gnd
Shimazaki, Tōson. idszbz
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
Biography.
Form Electronic book
Author Rimer, J. Thomas.
Walker, Janet A., 1942-
LC no. 2010008372
ISBN 9780824860738
082486073X
0824871677
9780824871673