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Biography

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Fantasies of Ito Michio

By Tara Rodman
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Japan, Theater and Performance, Biography
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Chronicles Ito Michio’s career and explores how fantasy sustains a life disrupted by war, racialization, and imperialism

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

Revised Edition

By Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko

Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989

By Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Biography, Memoir
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An essential companion for Tanizaki scholars and aficionados alike, providing a glimpse of the man from those closest to him

My Life as a Filmmaker

By Satsuo Yamamoto
Translated by Chia-ning Chang
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Biography
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A riveting autobiography of Yamamoto Satsuo (1910–83), one of the most important and critically acclaimed postwar Japanese film directors

My Life

Living, Loving, and Fighting

By Sumii Sue & Masuda Reiko
Subjects: Gender Studies, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A fascinating interview with a freedom fighter for minority rights

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

First Edition

By G. Rowley & Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Regent Redux

A Life of the Statesman-Scholar Ichijo Kaneyoshi

By Steven Carter
Subjects: Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Tells the story of a remarkable man who, against his will and largely against his knowledge, lived through what we now regard as the final decline of the ancient nobility in Japan

Kafu the Scribbler

The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1897–1959

By Edward Seidensticker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A hybrid of critical biography and translation of Nagai Kafū’s work

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