This book is a selection of graded Japanese readings written in
modern Japanese. An excellent way to learn Japanese, A Japanese
Reader is designed for the foreign student of Japanese who is
interested in attaining and developing proficiency in reading
Japanese, the style of which is in current use in books, magazines,
and newspapers in Japan. It also includes authentic excerpts from
works by 20th-century Japanese masters Mishima, Akutagawa,
Kawabata, and others. Although A Japanese Reader supposes some
acquaintance with the spoken Japanese language, it does not assume
any knowledge of written Japanese and starts from and very
beginning, advancing in graded readings up through quite difficult
materials. Learning the modern Japanese written language is by no
means a difficult task for the student of the Japanese language as
it is often made to appear. The most important thing in such a
study is to get yourself started in the correct direction--after
that, the progress you make and the eventual proficiency you will
gain in reading (and writing) the language are limited only by the
amount of time and effort you are able or willing to devote to the
task. Attention has been given throughout the volume to grading
materials in the order of progressive difficulty, though in many
cases familiarity on the part of a student with the subject matter
involved may well make a particular selection somewhat easier for
him than others further on in the book. Partly to assist in the
understanding of the reading selections and partly because it is
felt that few students will wish to become proficient in reading
Japanese and still remain uninterested in Japanese culture and
cultural history, an attempt has also been made to indicate where
possible significant collateral readings available in English,
especially for some of the sections which deal with distinctive
aspects of Japanese life and culture. Lessons 1 through 17 deal
with the essentials of the Japanese writing system, as it is used
in Japan today. Lessons 18 through 30 deal with building a working
knowledge of Japanese grammar and introducing the Japanese system
of writing. Lessons 31 through 38 are selections of intermediate
difficulty and largely deal with Japanese life and customs.
Included are readings of Japanese literature, archaeology, ceramic
art, painting, Buddhism, the theater, and political science and
philosophy. Lessons 48 through 59 are of increasing difficulty and
include criticisms, resumes, a short text from Meiji and Taisho
literature, and excerpts from important Japanese novels. Lessons 60
through 75 are of advanced difficulty and provided further readings
with a considerable variety of content including Sinology, Zen
Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, newspapers, economics and finance,
and Japanese government policies.
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