This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current f

This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current f

A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-yea

It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A f

Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atm