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Format: 1 online resource (536 p.) : , 10 color, 89 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780824855932

Content: The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons—tells the story of how the city’s literature and arts grew out of an often chaotic and sometimes paradoxical political environment to move toward a consummate Japanese “modernity.”Tokyo’s downtown audience constituted a market that demanded visuality and spectacle, while the educated uptown favored written, realistic literature. The literary products resulting from these conflicting consumer bases were therefore hybrid entities of old and new technologies. A Tokyo Anthology guides the reader through Japanese literature’s journey from classical to spoken, pictocentric to logocentric, and fantastic to realistic—making the novel the dominant form of modern literature. The volume highlights not only familiar masterpieces but also lesser known examples chosen from the city’s downtown life and counterculture.Imitating the custom of creative artists of the Edo period, scholars from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan have collaborated in order to produce this intriguing sampling of Meiji works in the best possible translations. The editors have sought out the most reliable first editions of texts, also reproducing most of their original illustrations. With few exceptions the translations presented here are the first in the English language. This rich anthology will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japan studies and by a wide general audience interested in Japan’s popular culture, media culture, and literature in translation.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Introduction. THE CONSTRUCTION OF JAPAN’S MODERNITY AND THE GROWTH OF A NEW LIT ER A TURE -- , Notes for the Reader -- , I. Responses to the Age of Enlightenment -- , Things Heard around a Pot of Beef -- , Catfish, Prostitutes, and Politicians: Satirical Cartoons -- , Toad Fed Up with Modernity -- , Monsters! Monsters! Read All about It! -- , II. Crime and Punishment, Edo and Tokyo -- , The Bad Girl Prefers Black and Yellow Plaid, performed 1873 -- , Takahashi Oden, Devil Woman -- , Rat Boy -- , Wedlock and Electricity -- , III. The High and Low of Capitalism -- , Money Is All That Matters in This World -- , Oppekepe Rap -- , In Darkest Tokyo -- , The Jester -- , IV. Modernity and Individualism -- , To My Fellow Sisters -- , The Origins of My Colloquial Style and Confessions of Half a Lifetime -- , The Impasse of Our Age -- , V. A Sense of the Real and Unreal -- , Raw Depiction -- , Messenger from the Sea -- , VI. Romance and Eros -- , Pessimist Poets and Women -- , The Cuckoo -- , Tangled Hair -- , At Yushima Shrine -- , VII. The City Dreams of the Country -- , A True View of Kasane Precipice -- , A Woodcutter Falls in Love -- , Maidens, Stars, and Dreams -- , VIII. Interiority and Exteriority -- , My Grand mother’s Cottage -- , Hilltop -- , Short Pieces from Long Spring Days -- , Rich Boy -- , Source Texts -- , Contributors -- , Permissions -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824855932

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824855932

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824855932

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824855932

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824855932