The world of Japanese fiction.
By: Edited, and with an introd. and headnotes, by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Arthur O. Lewis.
Contributors: Lewis, Arthur Orcutt, joint comp.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.; Japanese fiction -- History and criticism.; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Notes: "D342."
Table of contents: title: Shikibu Murasaki. The tale of Genji (Genji monogatari, eleventh century).; title: Tales of the Heike (Heike monogatari, thirteenth century).; title: Ihara, S. Five women who chose love (Koshoku gonin onna, 1686).; title: Mori, O. The wild geese (Gan, 1911).; title: Akutagawa, R. "The hell screen" ("Jigokuhen," 1918).; title: Yokomitsu, R. "Machine" ("Kikai," 1930).; title: Sakaguchi, A. "The idiot" ("Hakuchi," 1946).; title: Dazai, O. "The courtesy call" ("Shinyu kokan," 1946).; title: Kawabata, Y. "The moon on the water" ("Suigetsu," 1953).; title: Mishima, Y. "The priest of Shiga Temple and his love" ("Shigadera shonin no koi," 1954).; title: Tanizaki, J. "The bridge of dreams" ("Yume no ukihashi," 1959)