基本説明
First published in Boston in 1881 and rarely available today, "Japanese Episodes" reveals House as a writer, commentator, and observer of things Japanese at his best and was to inspire Lafcadio Hearn in the same pursuit twenty years later.
Full Description
First published in Boston in 1881 and rarely available today, Japanese Episodes reveals House as a writer, commentator and observer of things Japanese at his best and was to inspire Lafcadio Hearn in the same pursuit twenty years later. Formerly a reporter for the New York Tribune, House was a respected journalist in the United States, and though later he became a paid apologist for the Japanese state in many of his writings, sought to find a balance between his integrity as a writer and the task of arguing Japan's case to the outside world: an objective many have since argued which was unattainable. Nevertheless, Japanese Episodes provides an important benchmark in Western writing on Japan in the early Meiji period.
Contents
Introduction by James L. Huffman; Prefatory Note; Little Fountain of Sakanoshita; To Fuziyama and Back; A Japanese Statesman at Home; A Day in a Japanese Theatre
