The Land We Saw, the Times We Knew - An Anthology of Zuihitsu Writing from Early Modern Japan

Informationen zum Autor Gerald Groemer is professor of Japanese and Western music history at the University of Yamanashi in Kofu, Japan. Zusammenfassung Japanese zuihitsu (essays) offer a treasure trove of information rarely found in any other genre of Japanese writing. Especially during their golden age, the Edo period, zuihitsu treated a great variety of subjects. The seven zuihitsu translated and annotated in this volume date from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Groemer
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780824892500
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-9250-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous