Asian Studies
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Ugetsu Monogatari or Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Routledge Revivals)
A Complete English Version of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese collection of Tales of the Supernatural
Series: Routledge Revivals
Ugetsu Monogatari, or Tales of Moonlight and Rain numbers among the best-loved Japanese classics. These nine illustrated tales of the supernatural from eighteenth-century Osaka combine popular appeal with a high literary standard. The author expressed his complex views on human life and society in...
Published March 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Gleams From Japan
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1937 this is a collection of articles written by the author under the pseudonym 'Waseda Eisaku' for the Japan Tourist Bureau's magazine over twenty five years. Intended to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of cultivated tourists from abroad by giving the insider's view of all&...
Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Myth of Japanese Uniqueness (Routledge Revivals)
Series: Routledge Revivals
The ‘nihonjinron’ is a body of writing and thought which constitutes a major and highly thought of academic industry in Japan. It analyses the Japanese identity and presupposes that the Japanese differ radically from other people in their make-up. It believes that their uniqueness is due to...
Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge

