The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century

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English | ISBN: 0231167717 | 2014 | 540 pages | EPUB | 1147 KB
A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu―a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English.