title: Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Translations from the Asian Classics)
author:  Haruo Shirane 
description: This anthology stands alone. It is the first comprehensive anthology of early modern literature. The richness of content allows it to fulfill many different purposes...This volume provides a wealth of material. (Robert N. Huey <i>Monumenta Nipponica</i>)<br /><br />This book will become an indispensable reference, not only for students of Edo literature but also for those who have an interest in Japanese culture in general. (Hiroko Kobayashi <i>Asian Studies Review</i>)<br /><br />Shirane has given us so many angles from which to view this unique society that before long we almost feel we have joined it. (<i>Asahi.com</i>)<br /><br />This single volume from Columbia University Press has the bulk and the breadth to introduce to the full scope of Edo literature to the English-speaking world. (Haruko G. Iwasaki <i>The Journal of Asian Studies</i>)<br /><br />Haruo Shirane's <i>Early Modern Japanese Literature</i> will serve as the standard anthology for some time to come. (<i>Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies</i>)<br /><br />This volume has much to offer both students and scholars of Japanese theatre. (Julie Iezzi <i>Asian Theatre Journal</i>)
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  ******CONTENTS**
  
  _Title Page_
  
   _Dedication_
  
   _Acknowledgments_
  
   _Author’s note_
  
   _Before_
  
   _Chapter One_
  
   _Chapter Two_
  
   _Chapter Three_
  
   _Chapter Four_
  
   _Chapter Five_
  
   _Chapter Six_
  
   _Chapter Seven_
  
   _Chapter Eight_
  
   _Chapter Nine_
  
   _Chapter Ten_
  
   _Chapter Eleven_
  
   _Chapter Twelve_
  
   _Chapter Thirteen_
  
   _Chapter Fourteen_
  
   _Chapter Fifteen_
  
   _About the Author_
  
   _Copyright Page_
  
  _**To Jimmy,**_  
   _ **the real artist in the family**_
  
  ******ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
  Thanks to Professor Kendall Brown and Yukiko Yanagida McCarty, for sharing
  information about Takeo Shiota. Quotes from Takeo Shiota were taken from his
  essay “The Miniature Japanese Landscape,” written for the Newark Museum
  Association and available at The New York Public Library. For more information
  on Japanese Americans in New York, I can recommend two nonfiction works,
  Mitziko Sawada’s book, _Tokyo Life, New York Dream