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,
“... based on previous accounts. Who now has direct access to the French Revolution or Noah’s flood? Kato Shuichi is only one of several Japanese individuals who have been writing large-scale histories of Japanese literature (although the committee approach is more common). There is no dearth of Japanese literary histories in Japanese. If the Western nerve ... ”
