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Index
Preface
Introduction
1. First Experiments
Fiction
Mori Ōgai
“The Dancing Girl”
San’yūtei Enchō
The Ghost Tale of the Peony Lantern
Tōkai Sanshi
Strange Encounters with Beautiful Women
Poetry
“Spring Blossoms into Flower”
“Butterflies”
Yuasa Hangetsu
“Twelve Stones”
Ueki Emori
“Liberty Song”
Ochiai Naobumi
“Song of the Faithful Daughter Shiragiku”
Shimazaki Tōson
“The Fox’s Trick”
“First Love”
Yosano Hiroshi
“Victory Arches”
“Withered Lotus”
Takeshima Hagoromo
“The Maiden Called Love”
2. Beginnings
Fiction
Futabatei Shimei
Drifting Clouds
Izumi Kyōka
“The Holy Man of Mount Kōya”
Kōda Rohan
The Icon of Liberty
Kunikida Doppo
“Meat and Potatoes”
Masamune Hakuchō
“The Clay Doll”
Mori Ōgai
“The Boat on the River Takase”
Nagai Kafū
“The Mediterranean in Twilight”
Ozaki Kōyō
The Gold Demon
Shimazaki Tōson
“The Life of a Certain Woman”
Tayama Katai
“The Girl Watcher”
Tokuda Shūsei
“The Town’s Dance Hall”
Tokutomi Roka
“Ashes”
Poetry in the International Style
Kodama Kagai
“The Suicide of an Unemployed Person”
“The Setting Sun”
Ishikawa Takuboku
“Better than Crying”
“Do Not Get Up”
“A Spoonful of Cocoa”
“After Endless Discussions”
Kawai Suimei
“Snowflame”
“Living Voice”
Kitahara Hakushū
“Anesthesia of Red Flowers”
“Spider Lilies”
“Kiss”
Yamamura Bochō
“Ecstasy”
“Dance”
“Mandala”
Takamura Kōtarō
“Bear Fur”
“A Steak Platter”
Kinoshita Mokutarō
“Nagasaki Style”
“Gold Leaf Brandy”
Yosano Akiko
“Beloved, You Must Not Die”
“In the First Person”
“A Certain Country”
“From Paris on a Postcard”
“The Heart of a Thirtyish Woman”
Poetry in Traditional Forms
Kanshi
Tanka and Haiku
Ishikawa Takuboku
Masaoka Shiki
Tanka
Haiku
Natsume Sōseki
Wakayama Bokusui
Yosano Akiko
“The Dancing Girl”
“Spring Thaw”
Essays
Natsume Sōseki
“The Civilization of Modern-Day Japan”
“My Individualism”
Yosano Akiko
“An Open Letter”
3. The Interwar Years
Fiction
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
“The Nose”
“The Christ of Nanking”
Arishima Takeo
“The Clock that Does Not Move”
Edogawa Ranpo
“The Human Chair”
Hori Tatsuo
The Wind Has Risen
Inagaki Taruho
One-Thousand-and-One-Second Stories
Itō Sei
“A Department Store Called M”
Kajii Motojirō
“The Lemon”
Kawabata Yasunari
“The Dancing Girl of Izu”
Kobayashi Takiji
“The Fifteenth of March, 1928”
Kuroshima Denji
“A Flock of Circling Crows”
Miyamoto Yuriko
“A Sunless Morning”
Origuchi Shinobu
Writings from the Dead
Shiga Naoya
“The Diary of Claudius”
“The Paper Door”
“The Shopboy’s God”
Takeda Rintarō
“The Lot of Dire Misfortune”
Tani Jōji
“The Shanghaied Man”
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
“The Two Acolytes”
Uno Kōji
“Landscape with Withered Tree”
Yokomitsu Riichi
“Mount Hiei”
Poetry in the International Style
Takamura Kōtarō
“Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain”
Hagiwara Sakutarō
“On a Trip”
“Bamboo”
“Sickly Face at the Bottom of the Ground”
“The One Who’s in Love with Love”
“The Army”
“The Corpse of a Cat”
Miyazawa Kenji
“Spring & Asura”
“The Morning of the Last Farewell”
“November 3rd”
Nishiwaki Junzaburō
Seven Poems from Ambarvalia
No Traveler Returns
Kitasono Katsue
“Collection of White Poems”
“Vin du masque”
“Words”
Two Poems
“Almost Midwinter”
Kitasono’s First Letter to Ezra Pound
Nakano Shigeharu
“Imperial Hotel”
“Song”
“Paul Claudel”
“Train”
“The Rate of Exchange”
Poetry in Traditional Forms
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
Kitahara Hakushū
Mitsuhashi Takajo
Ogiwara Seisensui
Okamoto Kanoko
Ozaki Hōsai
Saitō Mokichi
Shaku Chōkū
Sugita Hisajo
Taneda Santōka
Yamaguchi Seishi
Drama
Kishida Kunio
The Swing
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
Okuni and Gohei
Essays
Kobayashi Hideo
“Literature of the Lost Home”
Satō Haruo
“Discourse on ‘Elegance’”
4. The War Years
Fiction
Dazai Osamu
“December 8th”
Ishikawa Tatsuzō
Soldiers Alive
Kajiyama Toshiyuki
“The Clan Records”
Nakajima Atsushi
“The Ox Man”
Ōoka Shōhei
Taken Captive
Ōta Yōko
“Fireflies”
Shimao Toshio
“The Departure Never Came”
Uno Chiyo
“A Wife’s Letters”
Poetry in the International Style
Takamura Kōtarō
“The Elephant’s Piggy Bank”
“The Final Battle for the Ryūkyū Islands”
Yoshida Issui
“Swans”
Kusano Shinpei
“Mount Fuji”
Oguma Hideo
“Long, Long Autumn Nights”
Poetry in Traditional Forms
Saitō Sanki
Toki Zenmaro
“Evidence”
Essays
Hagiwara Sakutarō
“Return to Japan”
Kobayashi Hideo
“On Impermanence”
“Taima”
Sakaguchi Ango
“A Personal View of Japanese Culture”
Bibliography
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