Naoki Inose

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A Biography of Yukio Mishima

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Produktbeschreibung

A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Seitenzahl: 866
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1379g
• ISBN-13: 9781611720648
• ISBN-10: 1611720648
• Artikelnr.: 58518825

Autorenporträt

Hiroaki Sato is a prolific, award-winning writer of books on Japanese history and literature, and a translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry into English. American poet Gary Snyder has called Sato "perhaps the finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English." He is the author of the classic works Legends of the Samurai. and The Sword and the Mind and most recently The Forty-Seven Samurai. His reviews and articles have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times Book Review, AsiaWeek, Mainichi Daily News, St. Andrews Review, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, The Journal of American and Canadian Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Japan Times, The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Modern Haiku, Japan Focus, and others. He recently received the 2017-2018 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation Prize for Silver Spoon (Stone Bridge Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Chapter One: The Hometown
Chapter Two: Grandparents and Parents
Chapter Three: The Boy Who Write Poems (1937-1942)
Chapter Four: Azuma Fumihiko
Chapter Five: First Love (1942-1945)
Chapter Six: The Aftermath of the War (1945-1946)
Chapter Seven: A Bureaucrat or a Writer
Chapter Eight: Confessions (1948-1949)
Chapter Nine: Boyfriends, Girlfriends (1950-1951)
Chapter Ten: Going Overseas (1951-1952)
Chapter Eleven: The Girlfriend (1953-1957)
Chapter Twelve: Kinkakuji (1956-1957)
Chapter Thirteen: Overseas Again (1957)
Chapter Fourteen: Marriage (1958-1959)
Chapter Fifteen: Kyoko's House (1959)
Chapter Sixteen: The 2.26 Incident and Yukoku (1960)
Chapter Seventeen: Assassinations (1960-1963)
Chapter Eighteen: Contretemps (1963-1964)
Chapter Nineteen: The Nobel Prize (1964-1965)
Chapter Twenty: The Shimpuren (1966-1967)
Chapter Twenty-One: "The Way of the Warrior is to die" (1967)
Chapter Twenty-Two: Passage to India (1967)
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1968)
Chapter Twenty-Four: Sun and Steel (Mid-1968-Early 1969)
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Shield Society and Counterrevolution
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Yakuza
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Yangming Philosophy and Revolution Chapter Chapter
Twenty-Eight: The Constitution
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Toward Ichigaya
Chapter Thirty: The Seppuku
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index