
Check out Episode 6 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast.
This episode is marked mature.
How does “this fleeting world” transform from a Buddhist precept to a name for the red-light district?
What did reading look like in early Modern Japan?
And how many dildos does a man need to pack for a trip to the Island of Women?
It’s time to talk about high and low literature in Edo Japan.
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Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 ed. Hauro Shirane
Find Out More
The Freer-Sackler Library’s collection of Illustrated Japanese books.
Eminent scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene on Saikaku: The Comic Novelist.
History of Japan Podcast, hosted by Isaac Meyer
Linfamy’s Japanese History and Folktales YouTube Channel
“Literature” at Japanese Wiki Corpus
Understanding Japan: A Cultural History by Professor Mark J. Ravina. Produced by The Great Courses, 2015.
- 11: Japan’s Isolation in the Tokugawa Period
Japanese Literature at Facebook
Selected Sources
Drake, Chris. “Introduction” in Excerpts from Life of a Sensuous Man, Aksornsami Press, 2010.
Huffman, James L. Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan, University of Hawaii, 1997.
Marcus, Marvin. Japanese Literature from Murasaki to Murakami. Association for Asian Studies, 2015.
Shirane, Haruo, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature—An Anthology, 1600-1900. Columbia, 2002.
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