The Kiso Road
The Life and Times of Shimazaki Toson
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2010
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-0-8248-3218-6 (ISBN)
Description
Provides a rich and colourful account of the life of Toson, the canonic Japanese novelist, regarded as one of the literary giants of Meiji Japan. This biography skillfully places Toson in the context of his times and discusses every aspect of his career and personal life, as well as introducing in detail a number of his important but as yet untranslated works.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Honolulu, HI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1043 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8248-3218-6 (9780824832186)
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Persons
William E. Naff (1929-2005) was founding chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was professor of Japanese literature.