Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu Stephen Snyder. The question of how much this misogynistic vision of sexual politics enters into Kafû's fiction is a complex one. Isoda Kòichi argues that Kafû's lifelong fascination with and ...

" At once sensitive and witty, elegant and gritty, these stories provide a nuanced outsider's view of the United States and a perfect entrance into modern Japanese literature.

This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in the Bamako kafu, or state (located in contemporary Mali in West Africa), primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

... Kafû as the chronicler of Tokyo In this context, the writings of Nagai Kafû (1879–1959) can be seen as a starting point for the emergence of the flâneur in Japan. Kafû has been called the chronicler of Tokyo, and he is indeed an urban ...

... Kafû (1879–1959) and his disciple Tanizaki Junichirò (1886–1965), became known as “aesthetes” or “decadents.” Whereas the naturalists proclaimed a scientific interest in all aspects of life, no matter how trifling, such aesthetes as Kafû ...