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Tokyo stories: a literary stroll

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Cover artist
  
Frances Baca

Language
  
English

Pages
  
267 pp

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Country
  
United States

Media type
  
Print

Copyright date
  
2002

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Authors
  
Translated and edited by Lawrence Rogers

Published
  
2002 (University of California Press)

Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll is an anthology of Japanese short stories set in Tokyo. The translator and editor Lawrence Rogers won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prizes for the Translation of Japanese Literature from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese culture in 2004. The stories are ordered by the areas of Tokyo in which they take place.

Contents

Central Tokyo

  • "Mire" by Motojiro Kaiji
  • "Terrifying Tokyo" by Kyūsaku Yumeno
  • "The Image" by Rintaro Takeda
  • "Fountains in the rain" by Yukio Mishima
  • "Meeting Again" by Kuniko Mukōda
  • "Jacob's Tokyo Ladder" by Keizo Hino

    • Shitamachi

  • "The Death Register" by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • "Kid Ume, the Silver Cat" by Yasunari Kawabata
  • "The First Day of the Fair" by Rintaro Takeda
  • "Elegy" by Ineko Sata
  • "The Old Part of Town" by Fumiko Hayashi
  • "Fireworks" by Yukio Mishima
  • "Azuma Bridge" by Kafū Nagai
  • "An Unclaimed Body" by Michiko Ikeda

    • West of the Palace

  • "From Behind the Study Door" by Natsume Sōseki
  • "Firefly Tavern by Kazuko Saegusa
  • "Swallows" by Takehiro Irokawa

    • The South End

  • "Morning comes twice a day" by Mayumi Inaba

    • References

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