2 days ago by camerasian

(36) I took a little from where Renée’s fork had left its imprint in the food… It had a garlicky taste that is typical of Greek entrees. Renée and I also ended up having the same meat dish for our main course. (I probably ordered the same dish deliberately. I guess I was trying to mimic her.) We cou ...

霧の中 ~ In the Fog - bookreviewsjapan.wordpress.com

3 days ago by Zack Davisson

A unique version of the familiar legend “Yotsuya Kaidan” is unquestionably THE Japanese ghost story, the most famous and most instantly recognizable story from a very haunted culture. There are numerous filmed versions of the tale (about 60 different versions or so, most likely more) and uncountable ...

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3 days ago by Chad W. Post

Following on the last post about December being a month of year-end donations, it’s also a month of submitting applications and books for a variety of awards. So here’s the first of three posts about various book prizes: On behalf of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University ...

Three Percent - Article - rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent · Rank: 6,459 · 256 references

4 days ago by bourdaghs

It’s that time of year: when critics and others assemble their “best of” lists. For the first time ever, I’ve discovered my own name on one of them: the website for Public Radio International’s “The World” has included Natsume Soseki’s Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, which I co-edi ...

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7 days ago by Patricia Sauthoff

(part one: The Book) examines Shohei Ooka's 1957 novel Fires on the Plain, the first person account of a Japanese soldier's attempts to escape death in the Filipino jungle during the final days of World War II.

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8 days ago by Soccerphile

Wonderful Fool by Shusaku Endo ISBN: 4-8053-0376-X237 pp At first light comedy, then fast-moving thriller, Wonderful Fool gradually focuses on its Christian Japanese author's favourite theme, the suffering and redemption of the common mass of humanity, but is never bogged down by overt religiosity. ...

Japan Visitor Blog - Tokyo ... - japanvisitor.blogspot.com · Rank: 64,662 · 72 references

9 days ago by Hilltown Families

Click on Title to view full description 1 FITZSIMMONS, Thomas (translator). Japanese Poetry Now. NY Schocken Books 1972 0805234381 / 9780805234381 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Remade into English from the Japanese. First edition. Near fine in a near fine (sun fading along the spine) ...

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10 days ago by hexijosh

Lately I’ve been trying to finish a book I’ve had sitting on the shelf for a year at least. And having been a fan of both the films for many years, I was sure that I would enjoy it. Not so much. Vampire Hunter D, Vol. 1 You see, the thing is that I just cannot get invested in this book no matter how ...

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11 days ago by novelinsights

Out, by Japanese author Natsuo Kirino is a difficult novel to categorise. If I had to put it into a category I would say it was a sort of psychological thriller, but it is not your average page-turner. Having read Grotesque by the same author a few years ago and after hearing that Out was supposed t ...

Novel Insights - novelinsights.wordpress.com · Rank: 58,450 · 3 references

12 days ago

今日は音楽の話しではなく文芸の話し。私は本好きの割には本を読んでいないというコンプレックスがあります。知識量にも読書量にも全く自信がないです。しかも知識はどんどん失われる。失われるだけなら良いですけれど、どんどんすり替わっていくのにはこまったもの。「始めにロゴスありき」という言葉が、創世記の冒頭だと思っていたのですが、今日、とある講演会に行きまして、それがヨハネ伝、ヨハネ福音書であることに気づかされた次第。まったく……。いちおうミッション系の学校にも通っていたんですけれどね。 その講演会、私が尊敬する小説家の先生の講演会でして、お名前を出すと、差し支えますのであまり細かくは書きませんけれど。 ...

Museum::Shushi Bis - museum.projectmnh.com · Rank: 34,308 · 1 reference