Donald Richie Reader 50 Years of Writing on Japan

Name: Donald Richie Reader 50 Years of Writing on Japan
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ISBN: 9781880656617

ISBN-10: 1880656612

ISBN-13: 9781880656617

Edition: 2001

Authors: Donald Richie, Arturo Silva, Arturo Silva

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No one has written more, or more artfully, about Japan and Japanese culture than Donald Richie. Richie moved to Tokyo just after World War II. And he is still there, still writing. This book is the first compilation of the best of Richie's writings on Japan, with excerpts from his critical work on film (Richie helped introduce Japanese film to the West in the late 1950s) and his unpublished private journal, plus fiction, Zen musings, and masterful essays on culture, travel, people, and style. With a critical introduction and full bibliography. Donald Richie's many books include The Films of Akira Kurosawa, The Japanese Tattoo, and the PBS favorite The Inland Sea. Vienna resident Arturo…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.80" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



The Great Mirror: An Introduction to Donald Richie


Prologue


Intimacy and Distance: On Being a Foreigner in Japan


Prose of Departure: A Memoir


Japan: Early


August 14, 1947: Festival of the Dead


1947: Fuji from Ginza


Tadashi Nakajima: Festival of Darkness


Japanese Shapes


Japan: Film


1960: Becoming a Film Critic


January 11, 1960: The Film Book Party


Ozu


Buddhism and the Film


Japan: People


Pierre Loti


Chishu Ryu


Toshiro Mifune


Shozo Kuroda


Hisako Shiraishi


Hanako Watanabe


Japan: Fiction


A View from the Chuo Line


Commuting


Magic Show


Tanabata


Five Zen Inklings


Tokyo Nights


High School Girls


The Stone Cat


The Silicate Filter


Japan: Later


The "Real" Disneyland


Walking in Tokyo


The Street: Notes on Construction


Hiroshima


I Like Myself Here


The "Best Books" on Japan


The Sex Market: The Commercialization of a Commodity


TV: The Presentational Image


Epilogue


The Nourishing Void


Japan: A Half Century of Change


New Year's 1999


Bibliographical Note