Mountain/Home : : New Translations from Japan / / ed. by Leza Lowitz, Frank Stewart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Bashō, Matsuo,; Issa, Kobayashi,; Macmillan, Peter,; Minoru, Yoshioka,; Mutsuo, Takahashi,; Nijō, Lady,; Nobuo, Ayukawa,; Oketani, Shogo,; Osamu, Dazai,; Selland, Eric,; Shikibu, Lady Murasaki,; Sōseki, Natsume,; Wakashū, Gosen,; Wolf, Charles De,; Yumiko, Kurahashi,
• HerausgeberIn: Lowitz, Leza,; Stewart, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Mānoa ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Editor’s Note --; One Hundred Literary Views of Mount Fuji --; The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter --; Love Song and Reply --; The Confessions of Lady Nijo --; A Tale of a Mount Fuji Cave --; Two Haiku --; Sanshiro --; Yoshioka Minoru: A Life of Poetry --; Still Life --; Ayukawa Nobuo: Poet of Arechi --; America and Other Poems --; Three Linked Stories --; Shining Genji --; The Cicada Shell, from The Tale of Genji --; Villon’s Woman --; Sketches: A Man And His Home --; About the Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824877668; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604184; 9783110603187; 9783110658118
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824877668
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Leza Lowitz, Frank Stewart.

Mountain/Home presents new translations of Japanese literature from the country’s medieval period to the present. The narrative arc of the selections follows the evolution of Japan’s national self-image. Because Mount Fuji, more than any other national symbol, has represented the soul of Japan, Mountain/Home begins with works inspired by the mountain’s presence. They include excerpts from some of the first literary works in which Mount Fuji appears: the mysterious Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, early court poetry, and the Confessions of Lady Nijо̄, among others. These works are followed by a chapter from Lady Murasaki’s brilliant novel, The Tale of Genji, and Edo-period haiku by Bashо̄ and Issa. In the twentieth century, Japan went through its darkest years. But out of the trauma of militarism, war, devastation, and defeat came outstanding fiction by Dazai Osamu and Natsume Sо̄seki, as well as avant-garde poetry by Yoshioka Minoru and Ayukawa Nobuo. In recent decades, contemporary optimism has produced writing that breaks new literary ground without forgetting the past: experimental fiction by Kurahashi Yumiko and poetry about everyday life by Takahashi Mutsuo.