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.

Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll
AuthorsTranslated and edited by Lawrence Rogers
Cover artistFrances Baca
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Published2002 (University of California Press)
Media typePrint
Pages267 pp
ISBN0520-21788-8

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

West of the Palace

The South End
gollark: https://osmarks.net/stuff/political_opinion_calendar.html
gollark: So instead of being bad™ and picking your political opinions based on either your social environment or "actual underlying beliefs", you can just read your opinion for the day off the calendar.
gollark: I also developed a political opinion calendar recently.
gollark: ("you" in the general sense)
gollark: If you elect me as supreme eternal world dictator for life, I will have been elected as supreme eternal world dictator for life.

References
  1. Richie, Donald On the streets of our town August 25, 2002 Japan Times Retrieved September 9, 2015
  2. Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture - Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature Retrieved September 9, 2015
  3. University of Hawaii - Lawrence Rogers Faculty Information Retrieved September 9, 2015
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