Using close readings of a range of premodern and modern texts, Atsuko Sakaki focuses on the ways in which Japanese writers and readers revised—or in many cases devised—rhetoric to convey "Chineseness"
Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Soseki's Kokoro and The Three-Corn
Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai,The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engageme
This is an English-language anthology dedicated to the short stories of Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-), a Japanese novelist of profound intellectual powers. The eleven stories included in this volume sugges
