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1) The nobility of failure: tragic heroes in the history of Japan

Author

Morris, Ivan

Publisher

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Pub. Date

[1975]

Language

English

2) The world of the shining prince: court life in ancient Japan

Author

Morris, Ivan

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

1964.

Language

English

3) Japan 1931-1945--militarism, fascism, Japanism

Author

Morris, Ivan

Series

Problems in Asian civilization

Publisher

Heath

Pub. Date

[1963]

Language

English

4) Modern Japanese stories: an anthology

Author

Morris, Ivan

Series

UNESCO collection of representative works Japanese

Publisher

C. E. Tuttle Co

Pub. Date

[1961]

Language

English

5) The temple of the golden pavilion

Author

Mishima, Yukio

Series

Everyman's library ; 169

Language

English

Description

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The son of a poor rural priest becomes an acolyte at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi had built up an image of ideal beauty in his mind based on this Golden Pavilion; this ideal image causes him to feel disappointed in any supposed form of beauty, even the actual physical Golden Pavilion. He comes under the influence of Kashiwagi, a fellow student with a very bitter view of life.

6) The pillow book of Sei Shōnagon

Author

Sei Shōnagon

Series

Columbia Asian studies
Translations from the Asian classics

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

[1991]

Language

English

Description

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One of the great classics of Japanese literature, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is by far our most detailed source of factual material on life in eleventh-century Japan at the height of Heian culture.