World Within Walls by Donald Keene (PDF)

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The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the “walls” of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period’s vast literary output, providing both lay readers and scholars with the definitive history of premodern Japanese literature.World Within Walls spans the age in which Japanese literature began to reach a popular audience―as opposed to the elite aristocratic readers to whom it had previously been confined. Keene comprehensively treats each of the new, popular genres that arose, including haiku, Kabuki, and the witty, urbane prose of the newly ascendant merchant class.

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Editorial Reviews: Review A work… that is not only exhaustive but always readable and often amusing. ― New York Times Book Review From the Back Cover “The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the “walls” of isolation and meticulously chronicles the periods vast literary output, providing both lay readers and scholars with the definitive history of premodern Japanese literature.”–BOOK JACKET. About the Author Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of a multivolume history of Japanese literature, of which World Within Walls is the second part, and more than thirty other books, including many translations from Japanese literature. He has received numerous honors in both the United States and Japan, and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Read more

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⭐At first, I didn’t expect finish reading this book, because it seemed like a hard academic one for me. But actually I could. Since this book is basically consisted of compact biographies of Japanese poets and writers, it’s not difficult to follow the story and easy to understand. Through English translation like the filter of a camera, Japanese poetry, Haiku and Waka, looked different to me. They’re fresh and interesting. By the comparison of Romanized Japanese poems and their English translations, I enjoyed the new aspects of Haiku and Waka and could find some true meanings of them as well.Teitoku Matunaga (poet), Ryoi Asai(writer), Nanboku Turuya(dramatist), and Kageki Kagawa(poet) are particularly interesting to me. I’d like to continue my reading to understand them more.

⭐Preso per la tesi. Ottimo近世文学の概説書を読みたいと思い、この本を購入した。退屈ですぐにギブアップしてしまうだろうと予想していたが、そんなことはなかった。あまり興味のなかった俳諧や和歌が、英文というフィルターを通してみると、何か新鮮なものにうつった。ローマ字表記の原文と英訳が併記され、英訳でそれらの作品のおもしろさをあらためて知ることができたし、意味が理解できたこともあった。長短はあるが、個々の作者の評伝というかたちが基本になっているので、まとまっていて読みやすく理解しやすかった。特に興味をもった作者は、松永貞徳・浅井了意・鶴屋南北・香川景樹であった。自分にとってほとんど知らない作者たちであったが、彼らの芸術とはたした役割をもっと勉強したいと思った。 At first, I didn’t expect to finish reading this book, because it seemed like a difficult academic one for me. But actually I did. Since this book basically consists of compact biographies of Japanese poets and writers, it’s not difficult to follow the story, and easy to understand. Through English translation like the filter of a camera, Japanese poetry, haikai and waka, looked different to me. They’re fresh and interesting. By comparing Romanized Japanese poems and their English translations, I enjoyed the new aspects of haikai and waka, and could find some true meanings of them as well. Teitoku Matsunaga(poet), Ryoi Asai(writer), Nanboku Tsuruya(dramatist),and Kageki Kagawa(poet) are particularly interesting to me. I’d like to continue my reading to understand them more.

⭐この時代には強くないので、新情報ばかりで実に興味がわく、面白いとさえ言えるくらいだ

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