Donald Keene

74 books

Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by 向井 去来, Mukai Kyorai, Ihara Saikaku, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Arthur Waley, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, G.W. Sargent, Richard J. Lane, 紀貫之, Bakin Takizawa, 曲亭馬琴, Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, Kochi Doi, Shio Sakanishi, 東海道中膝栗毛, Donald Keene, Howard Hibbett, A.L. Sadler, William Theodore de Bary, Charles E. Hamilton, Thomas Satchell, Robert H. Brower, Jippensha Ikku, Murasaki Shikibu, Kenneth Rexroth, 松尾 芭蕉, Matsuo Bashō, 鴨 長明, George Bailey Sansom, Marjorie Sinclair, Zeami, 紫 式部, Sam Houston Brock, Ryusaku Tsunoda, Anne Shepley Omori, Yukuo Uyehara, Burton Watson, Kamo no Chōmei, Harold Gould Henderson, Ki no Tsurayuki, 十返舎 一九, F. Voss, 世阿弥 元清, Edward G. Seidensticker, Meredith Weatherby

Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

向井 去来, Mukai Kyorai, Ihara Saikaku, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Arthur Waley, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, G.W. Sargent, Richard J. Lane, 紀貫之, Bakin Takizawa, 曲亭馬琴, Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, Kochi Doi, Shio Sakanishi, 東海道中膝栗毛, Donald Keene, Howard Hibbett, A.L. Sadler, William Theodore de Bary, Charles E. Hamilton, Thomas Satchell, Robert H. Brower, Jippensha Ikku, Murasaki Shikibu, Kenneth Rexroth, 松尾 芭蕉, Matsuo Bashō, 鴨 長明, George Bailey Sansom, Marjorie Sinclair, Zeami, 紫 式部, Sam Houston Brock, Ryusaku Tsunoda, Anne Shepley Omori, Yukuo Uyehara, Burton Watson, Kamo no Chōmei, Harold Gould Henderson, Ki no Tsurayuki, 十返舎 一九, F. Voss, 世阿弥 元清, Edward G. Seidensticker, Meredith Weatherby

444 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

fiction poetry reflective medium-paced
Appreciations of Japanese Culture by Donald Keene

Appreciations of Japanese Culture

Donald Keene

343 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal by Matsuo Bashō

Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal

Companions for the Journey

Matsuo Bashō

93 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction essays history poetry travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja: A Donald Keene Anthology by Donald Keene, J. Thomas Rimer

The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja: A Donald Keene Anthology

Donald Keene, J. Thomas Rimer

208 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative medium-paced
Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene

Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan

Donald Keene

196 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography reflective medium-paced
Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play by Namiki Senryu, Donald Keene, Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku

Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play

Namiki Senryu, Donald Keene, Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku

183 pages • first pub 1748 (editions)

fiction classics play reflective medium-paced
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Ivan Morris, Donald Keene, Yukio Mishima, Geoffrey Sargent, Edward G. Seidensticker

Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

Ivan Morris, Donald Keene, Yukio Mishima, Geoffrey Sargent, Edward G. Seidensticker

192 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective sad slow-paced
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912

Donald Keene

928 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō by Yoshida Kenkō

Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō

ビギナーズ・クラシックス 日本の古典

Yoshida Kenkō

235 pages • first pub 1332 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy reflective slow-paced
The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku by Donald Keene

The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku

Donald Keene

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective relaxing medium-paced