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The last project of the late Robert H. Brower, Conversations with Shotetsu provides a translation of the complete Nihon koten bungaku taikei text, as edited by Hisamatsu Sen'ichi. Steven D. Carter has annotated the translation and provided an introduction.

J2284.50 --- J5500.50 --- J5710 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Muromachi, Ashikaga, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Muromachi, Ashikaga, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka --- Japan --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Poetry. --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс --- Shōtetsu

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This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the “tragic” combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse (especially the works by such thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams), the author challenges both exotic and postmodern representation of Japanese culture as “the other” of the West. By examining the social backgrounds of artists’ endeavors to create new literary forms, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature that, unlike the dominant local tradition of naturalism, has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and social values at a particular historical moment.

Tragic, The, in literature. --- Aristotle. --- Buddhism. --- Christianity. --- Daiichiji sengo-ha. --- Dainiji sengo-ha. --- Daisanji sengo-ha. --- Edo period. --- Hiroshima. --- Japanese literature. --- Kamakura. --- Marxism. --- Meiji period. --- Muromachi. --- Nagasaki. --- Oriental. --- Qin dinasty. --- Shintoism. --- Taisho. --- Taoism. --- Tokugawa period. --- World War II. --- aesthetics. --- allegory. --- ambiguity. --- androgyny. --- anthropology. --- anti-pastoral. --- atomic bomb. --- bunka. --- capitalism. --- catharsis. --- classical Japanese theater. --- colonialism. --- comparative literature. --- critical theory. --- exoticism. --- feminism. --- haiku. --- imperialism. --- industrialization. --- mimesis. --- modernism. --- multiculturalism. --- naturalism. --- othering. --- phenomenology. --- poetry. --- post-structuralism. --- postmodernism. --- postwar. --- realism. --- socialism. --- tragedy. --- trauma. --- universalism.

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Kendo is the first in-depth historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship, from its beginnings in military training and arcane medieval schools to its widespread practice as a global sport today. Alexander Bennett shows how kendo evolved through a recurring process of "inventing tradition," which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history. Kendo follows the development of Japanese swordsmanship from the aristocratic-aesthetic pretensions of medieval warriors in the Muromachi period, to the samurai elitism of the Edo regime, and then to the nostalgic patriotism of the Meiji state. Kendo was later influenced in the 1930's and 1940's by ultranationalist militarists and ultimately by the postwar government, which sought a gentler form of nationalism to rekindle appreciation of traditional culture among Japan's youth and to garner international prestige as an instrument of "soft power." Today kendo is becoming increasingly popular internationally. But even as new organizations and clubs form around the world, cultural exclusiveness continues to play a role in kendo's ongoing evolution, as the sport remains closely linked to Japan's sense of collective identity.

Kendo. --- Swordplay --- J6976 --- Japanese fencing --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- martial arts, fighting sports -- kendō, iaidō, bōjutsu, fencing. --- Fencing --- Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental --- Stick fighting --- Swordplay. --- Japan. --- Kendo --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- martial arts, fighting sports -- kendō, iaidō, bōjutsu, fencing --- bamboo. --- bogu. --- collective identity. --- combat. --- cultural studies. --- edo period. --- fighting styles. --- fights. --- global sport. --- history of kendo. --- history. --- inventing tradition. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- japanese martial arts. --- japanese studies. --- japanese. --- kendo. --- kenjutsu. --- martial arts. --- medieval schools. --- meiji period. --- military training. --- muromachi period. --- nationalism. --- physical activity. --- practice of honor. --- protective armor. --- samurai. --- shinai. --- soft power. --- sports. --- swordsmanship. --- traditional culture. --- war. --- warriors.