The Donald Richie Reader
Subtitle: 50 Years of Writing on Japan
Contributors: Arturo Silva (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781880656617
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; History; Civilization; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; Asia - Japan; Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / Essays; Customs & Traditions; 1945-; Japan
First sentence: Donald Richie is an amateur and a dilettante (in the best sense of these words), a humanist and a romantic (as he calls himself, so contrary to the contemporary tide), and an aesthete (as I also think of him).
Description: Represents selections from essays and reports on the Japanese experience. Explores Japanese festivals, film, people, gardens, architecture, fiction, social life, and religious practices.