Format:
1 Online-Ressource (269 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0824817044
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0585332452
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0824861582
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9780824817046
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9780585332451
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9780824861582
Content:
Six stories of amazing diversity and two critical essays revealing the understated Japanese ideals of beauty make up this volume, all translated into English for the first time. The title story is a utopian dream of a better city, populated by ideal people, that vanishes in a mirage. Another tale portrays the loneliness of a man unsuccessful with women. A third embellishes a bare Basho haiku about the man next door. Here too are the dream ballad of a Chinese prince, the imaginary world of a mad Japanese artist in Paris, and the probing search for an opium-drugged murderer. Sato's critical essays that conclude this volume have their themes in a exploration of the sad beauty of impermanence, the nature of enlightenment, the awareness of self, the merging of the instant and the eternal, and the "self-indulgent, unrestrained beauty" of the Japanese language
Content:
Introduction / Elaine Gerbert -- Beautiful Town -- The Fingerprint -- F*O*U -- The Star -- Unbearably Forlorn -- A Window Opens -- A Discourse on "Elegance" -- The Joy of the Artist and Other Critical Selections
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0824817044
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780824817046
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Satō, Haruo, 1892-1964 Beautiful town Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1996
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English
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