num_pages: 250
description: This memoir is by a translator who has introduced two generations of English-language audiences to the masterpieces of classical and modern Japanese literature. His patient rendering of novels ranging from the 11th-century Tale of Genji to works of such modern masters as Junichiro Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima and Nobel-Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata has earned him the National Book Award as well as the Order of the Rising Sun, Japan's highest honour for foreigners.
language: English
title: Tokyo Central: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Tokyo Central: A Memoir (McLellan Books)
genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Japan
ratings_count: 21
publisher: University of Washington Press