... Kafû. Kafû's writings about Tokyo continue to be consulted as guidebooks for the city, even as they are strong statements of the inseparability of the real from the literary. Kafû's 1937 Strange Tales from East of the River is a ...
... Kafû a formative experience in shaping his view of America and his rela- tion to it as a Japanese visitor . Kafû's narrative unfolds as a story that the narrator - perhaps Kafû himself as a Japanese visitor to the St. Louis Fair - hears ...
... 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 ...
... Kafû pointed out in his famous essay of 1919, “Hanabi” (“Fireworks”), this incident seemed to have the same meaning for Japanese writers that the Dreyfus affair had for French writers just a few years earlier: a trumped-up charge of ...
... Kafû (Shòsetsu Nagai Kafû den, Biography of Nagai Kafû, a Novel, 1960). He edited the Keiò University literary journal, Mita bungaku; translated Yoshida Kenkò's fourteenth-century essay Tsurezuregusa into modern Japanese; authored many ...
... Kafû, Nagai Kafû zenshû (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1963), vol. 5, pp. 280–281. Although Kafû's diatribe is an ad hominem attack that engages in the cultural snobbery of the urban sophisticate critiquing country bumpkins, his novella does ...
... Kafû. Lorsque parut Cheveux ébouriffés,20 Kafû avait déjà à son actif un article savant intitulé Le Pays de Monsieur Zola, une critique de L'Œuvre, et une 16 Voir l'article de Miyuki Terashima-Fukuda. 17 Nous y reviendrons plus loin. 18 ...
... Kafû . " Edo geijutsuron " ( On Edo Art ) . In Kafû zenshu ( The Collected Works of Nagai Kafû ) , edited by Nagai Masakichi , 29 vols . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1963-1972 . Naganuma Kenkai . Nihon rekishi ( A History of Japan ) . Tokyo ...
... Kafû's attitude toward pleasures was grounded on what might be called the ethics within beauty and vice . In Kafû's demi - monde literature , women are treated as a tool for men's pleasures , while in Jun'ichirô's works , men are only ...
... Kafû's attitude toward pleasures was grounded on what might be called the ethics within beauty and vice . In Kafû's demi - monde literature , women are treated as a tool for men's pleasures , while in Jun'ichirô's works , men are only ...