And, finally, here are the parasites of the demimonde, who live off its other denizens through guile and deceit.
... Kafû ( Nagai Kafû no Shôgai ) . Tokyo : Tôjusha , 1972 . Nakamura , Mitsuo . “ Young Kafû ” ( Kafû no Seishun ) . Critical Essays on Kafû ( Hyoron Nagai Kafû ) . Tokyo : Chikuma Shobô , 1979 . Noguchi , Fujio . My Kafu ( Waga Kafu ) ...
... Kafû delighted in the anima- tion of the station waiting room . This keen chroni- cler and connoisseur of Tokyo life opined the wait- ing room surpassed Tokyo's cafés in interest . How- ever , there remained no interior descriptions of ...
... Kafû's " classicist " lyrical elegies about these parts of Tokyo.29 Repeatedly , Kafû mourns the actual disappearance of the Yoshiwara , the decay of Yanagibashi , and , finally , the destruction of Tamanoi.30 He also attempts to link ...
Most of the seedy neighborhoods that Kafu so lovingly describes have long since vanished, either in the bombing raids of 1945 or in the rebuilding that followed. Kafu's sympathies are clearly with the women that figure in these stories.
... Kafû, Shin kichôsha nikki [Diary of a Person Who Has Just Returned from Abroad], in Nagai Kafû, Nagai Kafû shû [Selected Works of Nagai Kafû], vol. 1 (Tokyo Chikuma Shobô, 1969), 205. 59. See Endô Shûsaku, Ryûgaku [Studying Abroad], in ...
... Kafû ” , 21–44 . “ 4.1 Kafûs Leben ” , 22–26 . “ 4.2 Kafûs Beziehung zu Ôgai ” , 26–36 . “ 4.3 ' Über Meister Mori ' von Nagai Kafû ” , 36–41 . “ 4.4 ' Meister Ôgai ' von Nagai Kafû ” , 41–44 . “ 5. Tsubouchi Shôyô ” , 44–69 . “ 5.1 ...
... 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 (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 ...