Tokyo stories: a literary stroll
Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll is an anthology of Japanese short stories set in Tokyo.[1] The translator and editor Lawrence Rogers won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese culture in 2004.[2][3] The stories are ordered by the areas of Tokyo in which they take place.
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| Authors | Translated and edited by Lawrence Rogers |
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| Cover artist | Frances Baca |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Published | 2002 (University of California Press) |
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| Pages | 267 pp |
| ISBN | 0520-21788-8 |
Contents
Central Tokyo
- "Mire" by Motojiro Kaiji
- "Terrifying Tokyo" by Kyūsaku Yumeno
- "The Image" by Rintaro Takeda
- "Fountains in the rain" by Yukio Mishima
- "Meeting Again" by Kuniko Mukōda
- "Jacob's Tokyo Ladder" by Keizo Hino
Shitamachi
- "The Death Register" by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- "Kid Ume, the Silver Cat" by Yasunari Kawabata
- "The First Day of the Fair" by Rintaro Takeda
- "Elegy" by Ineko Sata
- "The Old Part of Town" by Fumiko Hayashi
- "Fireworks" by Yukio Mishima
- "Azuma Bridge" by Kafū Nagai
- "An Unclaimed Body" by Michiko Ikeda
West of the Palace
- "From Behind the Study Door" by Natsume Sōseki
- "Firefly Tavern by Kazuko Saegusa
- "Swallows" by Takehiro Irokawa
The South End
- "Morning comes twice a day" by Mayumi Inaba
gollark: Write, or I will plunge the Earth into the Sun.
gollark: The first case was recorded December 1 or something.
gollark: I really hate typing on phones. I can do 100 WPM or so on a decent physical keyboard, but on phones I type very slowly and rely heavily on autocorrect.
gollark: Write the book, or *pay the price of failure*.
gollark: Write the book, ***or else***.
References
- Richie, Donald On the streets of our town August 25, 2002 Japan Times Retrieved September 9, 2015
- Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture - Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature Retrieved September 9, 2015
- University of Hawaii - Lawrence Rogers Faculty Information Retrieved September 9, 2015
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