A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750 by Jones, Sumie
A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750 by Jones, Sumie

A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750

This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An...
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A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750 by Jones, Sumie

A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750

$117.79
A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750 by Jones, Sumie

A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750

$117.79
Author: Sumie Jones
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois culture first emerged in Japan, telling the story of the rising commoner arts of Kamigata, or the "Upper Regions" of Kyoto and Osaka, which harkened back to Japan's middle ages even as they rebelled against and competed with that earlier era. Both cities prided themselves on being models and trendsetters in all cultural matters, whether arts, crafts, books, or food. The volume also shows how elements of popular arts that germinated during this period ripened into the full-blown consumer culture of the late-Edo period.

The tendency to imagine Japan's modernity as a creation of Western influence since the mid-nineteenth century is still strong, particularly outside Japan studies. A Kamigata Anthology challenges such assumptions by illustrating the flourishing phenomenon of Japan's movement into its own modernity through a selection of the best examples from the period, including popular genres such as haikai poetry, handmade picture scrolls, travel guidebooks, kabuki and joruri plays, prose narratives of contemporary life, and jokes told by professional entertainers. Well illustrated with prints from popular books of the time and hand scrolls and standing screens containing poems and commentaries, the entertaining and vibrant translations put a spotlight on texts currently unavailable in English.

Author: Sumie Jones
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 02/29/2020
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780824881818

About the Author

Sumie Jones (Editor)
Sumie Jones, a specialist in eighteenth-century comparative literature and Edo arts, is professor emerita of East Asian languages and cultures and comparative literature and a residential fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the recipient of the 2018-19 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for lifetime achievement as a translator, presented by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University.

Adam L. Kern (Editor)
Adam L. Kern is professor of Japanese literature and visual culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Kenji Watanabe (Editor)
Kenji Watanabe, an expert in Edo-period literature and society, is professor emeritus of Rikkyo University and academic dean of the Jiyugakuen College, Tokyo.


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