In Praise of History
Earl Miner, 1 March 1984
A History of Japanese Literature. Vol. I: The First Thousand Years
by Shuichi Kato, translated by David Chibbett.
Macmillan, 319 pp., £20, September 1979,0 333 19882 4 Show More
by Shuichi Kato, translated by David Chibbett.
Macmillan, 319 pp., £20, September 1979,
A History of Japanese Literature. Vol. II: The Years of Isolation
by Shuichi Kato, translated by Don Sanderson.
Macmillan, 230 pp., £20, October 1983,0 333 22088 9 Show More
by Shuichi Kato, translated by Don Sanderson.
Macmillan, 230 pp., £20, October 1983,
A History of Japanese Literature. Vol. III: The Modern Years
by Shuichi Kato, translated by Don Sanderson.
Macmillan, 307 pp., £20, October 1983,0 333 34133 3 Show More
by Shuichi Kato, translated by Don Sanderson.
Macmillan, 307 pp., £20, October 1983,
Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature
by Makoto Ueda.
Stanford, 451 pp., $28.50, September 1983,0 8047 1166 6 Show More
by Makoto Ueda.
Stanford, 451 pp., $28.50, September 1983,
Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake
by Edward Seidensticker.
Allen Lane, 302 pp., £16.95, September 1983,0 7139 1597 8 Show More
by Edward Seidensticker.
Allen Lane, 302 pp., £16.95, September 1983,
“... form of flattery. On the other hand, an alternative is possible, and it has been amply supplied by Makoto Ueda, whose Modern Japanese Writers (of shosetsu) appeared shortly after Miyoshi’s book. Ueda’s work is far more attentive to Japanese study than is Miyoshi’s, but it has no exact Japanese counterpart. ... ”
