A Tokyo Anthology : : Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920 / / ed. by Sumie Jones, Charles Shirō Inouye.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Akiko, Yosano,; Ariake, Kanbara,; Enchō, San'yūtei,; Hakuen, Shōrin,; Hōmei, Iwano,; Inouye, Charles Shirō,; Iwagorō, Matsubara,; Jones, Sumie,; Jun'ichirō, Tanizaki,; Kafū, Nagai,; Katai, Tayama,; Kyōka, Izumi,; Kōyō, Ozaki,; Mokuami, Kawatake,; Otojirō, Kawakami,; Robun, Kanagaki,; Roka, Tokutomi,; Ruikō, Kuroiwa,; Ryūō, Shunkintei,; Shimei, Futabatei,; Shizuko, Wakamatsu,; Shōen, Nakajima,; Sōseki, Natsume,; Takuboku, Ishikawa,; Tōkoku, Kitamura,; Tōson, Shimazaki,; Ōga, Mantei,
• TeilnehmendeR: Chambers, Anthony H.; Cohn, Joel.; Copeland, Rebecca L.; Cummings, Alan.; Dorsey, James.; Duus, Peter.; Fraleigh, Matthew.; Hibbett, Howard.; Inouye, Charles Shirō.; Ito, Ken K.; Jones, Sumie.; Koenigsberg, Matthew.; McGee, Dylan.; Mertz, John Pierre.; Miller, J. Scott.; Okamoto-MacPhail, Aiko.; Poulton, M. Cody.; Rodd, Laurel Rasplica.; Sekine, Eiji.; Snyder, Stephen.; Wakui, Takashi.
• HerausgeberIn: Inouye, Charles Shirō,; Jones, Sumie,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.) :; 10 color, 89 b&w illustrations

The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo's highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology-including fictional and dramatic wo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction. THE CONSTRUCTION OF JAPAN'S MODERNITY AND THE GROWTH OF A NEW LIT ER A TURE
• Notes for the Reader
• I. Responses to the Age of Enlightenment
• Things Heard around a Pot of Beef
• Catfish, Prostitutes, and Politicians: Satirical Cartoons
• Toad Fed Up with Modernity
• Monsters! Monsters! Read All about It!
• II. Crime and Punishment, Edo and Tokyo
• The Bad Girl Prefers Black and Yellow Plaid, performed 1873
• Takahashi Oden, Devil Woman
• Rat Boy
• Wedlock and Electricity
• III. The High and Low of Capitalism
• Money Is All That Matters in This World
• Oppekepe Rap
• In Darkest Tokyo
• The Jester
• IV. Modernity and Individualism
• To My Fellow Sisters
• The Origins of My Colloquial Style and Confessions of Half a Lifetime
• The Impasse of Our Age
• V. A Sense of the Real and Unreal
• Raw Depiction
• Messenger from the Sea
• VI. Romance and Eros
• Pessimist Poets and Women
• The Cuckoo
• Tangled Hair
• At Yushima Shrine
• VII. The City Dreams of the Country
• A True View of Kasane Precipice
• A Woodcutter Falls in Love
• Maidens, Stars, and Dreams
• VIII. Interiority and Exteriority
• My Grand mother's Cottage
• Hilltop
• Short Pieces from Long Spring Days
• Rich Boy
• Source Texts
• Contributors
• Permissions
• Index