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The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons—tells the story of how the city’s literature and arts grew out of an often chaotic and sometimes paradoxical political environment to move toward a consummate Japanese “modernity.”Tokyo’s downtown audience constituted a market that demanded visuality and spectacle, while the educated uptown favored written, realistic literature. The literary products resulting from these conflicting consumer bases were therefore hybrid entities of old and new technologies. A Tokyo Anthology guides the reader through Japanese literature’s journey from classical to spoken, pictocentric to logocentric, and fantastic to realistic—making the novel the dominant form of modern literature. The volume highlights not only familiar masterpieces but also lesser known examples chosen from the city’s downtown life and counterculture.Imitating the custom of creative artists of the Edo period, scholars from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan have collaborated in order to produce this intriguing sampling of Meiji works in the best possible translations. The editors have sought out the most reliable first editions of texts, also reproducing most of their original illustrations. With few exceptions the translations presented here are the first in the English language. This rich anthology will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japan studies and by a wide general audience interested in Japan’s popular culture, media culture, and literature in translation.

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Depuis les premières chroniques et l’anthologie poétique du Recueil des dix mille feuilles, au VIIIe siècle, le Japon a élaboré une tradition littéraire profondément originale, aux genres et aux formes extrêmement variés, qui a donné à la littérature mondiale quelques-uns de ses plus grands chefs-d’œuvre : Roman du Genji, Dit des Heiké, poésie haikai de Matsuo Bashô. Renouvelée au contact de l’Occident à la fin du XIXe siècle, la littérature japonaise s’épanouit de nouveau tout au long du XXe siècle, de Natsume Sôseki à Murakami Haruki. Aujourd’hui encore d’une grande vitalité, elle s’interroge et cherche de nouvelles voies pour offrir une vision contrastée, passionnante et souvent décapante, de la société japonaise.

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