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Kyōden Santō
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      Carmen Blacker’s spirited translation of Santo Kyoden’s Mukashi-banashi inazuma byooshi (from which the title ‘The Straw Sandal’ is taken), considered by Aston to be his masterpiece, reveals a multi-layered and fascinating tale of revenge – Japanese-style, thereby providing a classic example of this popular genre within Japanese literature. Aston makes the point that the plot of this late-eighteenth-century novel, developed over twenty chapters or episodes, is so complicated that ‘it is impossible to give an adequate summary…’ But he goes on to promise several murders, a harakiri and other suicides, terrific combats, hairbreadth escapes, strange meetings and surprising recognitions. In addition, there are scenes of witchcraft and enchantment with dreams, magic terrors and ghosts who rove by night. The Straw Sandal, which contains most of the original black and white woodblock prints together with textual notes added by the translator, will surely be widely welcomed both in the world of literature as well as that of Japanese Studies.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Kyōden Santō EAN: 9781905246649 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 400 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-01-31 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      Literary essays

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      Carmen Blacker is widely known for her work on Fukuzawa Yukichi (The Japanese Enlightenment, 1964), shamanistic practices in Japan (The Catalpa Bow, 1975, republished in paperback 1999), and folklore and divinations (Ancient Cosmologies, 1975, and Divination and Oracles 1981 – both with Michael Loewe). In 1996, she published (with Edward Shils) Cambridge Women, and in 2000, her Collected Writings.
      Carmen Blacker’s spirited translation of Santo Kyoden’s Mukashi-banashi inazuma byooshi (from which the title ‘The Straw Sandal’ is taken), considered by Aston to be his masterpiece, reveals a multi-layered and fascinating tale of revenge – Japanese-style, thereby providing a classic example of this popular genre within Japanese literature. Aston makes the point that the plot of this late-eighteenth-century novel, developed over twenty chapters or episodes, is so complicated that ‘it is impossible to give an adequate summary…’ But he goes on to promise several murders, a harakiri and other suicides, terrific combats, hairbreadth escapes, strange meetings and surprising recognitions. In addition, there are scenes of witchcraft and enchantment with dreams, magic terrors and ghosts who rove by night. The Straw Sandal, which contains most of the original black and white woodblock prints together with textual notes added by the translator, will surely be widely welcomed both in the world of literature as well as that of Japanese Studies.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Kyōden Santō EAN: 9781905246649 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 400 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-01-31 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      Literary essays

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      Carmen Blacker is widely known for her work on Fukuzawa Yukichi (The Japanese Enlightenment, 1964), shamanistic practices in Japan (The Catalpa Bow, 1975, republished in paperback 1999), and folklore and divinations (Ancient Cosmologies, 1975, and Divination and Oracles 1981 – both with Michael Loewe). In 1996, she published (with Edward Shils) Cambridge Women, and in 2000, her Collected Writings.

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