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The Kiso Road - The Life and Times of Shimazaki Toson (Hardcover, New)
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The Kiso Road - The Life and Times of Shimazaki Toson (Hardcover, New)
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William E. Naff, the distinguished scholar of Japanese literature
widely known and highly regarded for his eloquent translations of
the writings of Shimazaki Tōson (1872-1943), spent the last years
of his life writing a full-length biography of Tōson. Virtually
completed at the time of his death. The Kiso Road provides a rich
and colorful account of this canonic novelist who, along with
Natsume Sōseki and Mori Ōgai, formed the triumvirate of writers
regarded as giants in Meiji Japan, all three of whom helped
establish the parameters of modern Japanese literature. Professor
Naff's biography skillfully places Tōson 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. Tōson's long life, his many connections
with other important Japanese artists and intellectuals, his
sojourn in France during World War I, and his later visit to South
America, permit a biography of depth and detail that serves as a
kind of cultural history of Japan during an often turbulent period.
The Kiso Road, as approachable and exciting as any novel, with
Tōson himself as its complex protagonist, is arguably the most
thorough account of any modern Japanese writer presently available
in English.
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