Japanese Journeys : : Writings and Recollections / / Geoffrey Bownas.
Geoffrey Bownas, widely known over the last half century for his writings, translations, broadcasts and commentaries relating to Japan, and an eminent Japanese Studies scholar who pioneered teaching in this field at Oxford (1954) and Sheffield (1966), has at last completed a memoir. It is both a lit...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: A Memoir
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 1923 to 1952
- Chapter 2 Kyoto 1952-54
- Chapter 3 Tenri and Yamato 1956
- Chapter 4 Shiga Prefecture 1960
- Chapter 5 The 1960s
- Chapter 6 Mishima Yukio - the Man I Knew - Recollections 1957-1970
- Chapter 7 The 1970s
- Chapter 8 The 1980s
- Chapter 9 1990 to 2005
- Chapter 10 The Japanese Aesthetic
- Part II: Selected Writings
- One: The Origin and History of the Gion Festival
- Two: Rainmaking
- Three: The Village Year on Okinoshima
- Four: From Japanology to Japanese Studies
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Index.