Title: Japanese literature; manners and customs in the Meiji-Taishó era.
Authors: Kimura, Ki, 1894-1979; Yampolsky, Philip B. 1920-1996,
Publisher: Ōbunsha
Year: 1957
Subjects: Comparative literature Japanese and American.; Comparative literature American and Japanese.; Comparative literature Japanese and American.; Comparative literature American and Japanese.; Japanese literature History and criticism; Japanese literature History and criticism; Japanese literature American influences.; Japan Relations United States.; United States Relations Japan.
Contents: Japan and the American Indians -- Literature foretelling the opening of Japan -- The first American in Japan -- Perry and men of literature -- Two young castaways -- An American religious novel about Takayama Ukon -- Whitman and Japan -- Franklin and the Imperial Court -- Longfellow and the new style poetry -- The influence of Emerson -- Chūshingura and Theodore Roosevelt -- Tsubouchi Shōyō and American teachers of Shakespeare -- Urashima and Rip van Whinkle -- The Hyakunin Isshu and the cinquain -- Haiku and imagism -- An Indian poetess -- The Americanization of Japanese customs.