TY - BOOK ID - 136548918 TI - A Kamigata Anthology : Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750 AU - Bolitho, Harold AU - Burk, Stefania AU - Campbell, Robert AU - Cannell, David AU - Crowley, Cheryl AU - Cummings, Alan AU - Fox, Charles AU - Fraleigh, Matthew AU - Gerstle, C. Andrew AU - Hare, Thomas AU - Hibbett, Howard AU - Jones, Sumie AU - Kabat, Adam AU - Kern, Adam L. AU - McGee, Dylan AU - Pflugfelder, Gregory AU - Quinn, Shelley Fenno AU - Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza AU - Rubin, Jay AU - Schalow, Paul Gordon AU - Sitkin, David AU - Smith, Henry D. AU - Solt, John AU - Takahashi, Toru AU - Walley, Glynne AU - Watanabe, Kenji AU - Wills, Steven AU - Yonemoto, Marcia PY - 2020 SN - 0824882652 0824882636 PB - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, DB - UniCat KW - Japanese literature KW - 1600-1868 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136548918 AB - This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois culture first emerged in Japan, telling the story of the rising commoner arts of Kamigata, or the "Upper Regions" of Kyoto and Osaka, which harkened back to the Japan's middle ages even as they rebelled against and competed with that earlier era. Both cities prided themselves on being models and trendsetters in all cultural matters, whether arts, crafts, books, or food. The volume also shows how elements of popular arts that germinated during this period ripened into the full-blown consumer culture of late-Edo. The tendency to imagine Japan's modernity as a creation of Western influence since the mid-nineteenth century is still strong, particularly outside Japan studies. A Kamigata Anthology challenges such assumptions by illustrating the flourishing phenomenon of Japan's movement into its own modernity through a selection of the best examples from the period, including popular genres such as haikai poetry, handmade picture scrolls, travel guidebooks, kabuki and joruri plays, prose narratives of contemporary life, and jokes told by professional entertainers. Well illustrated with prints from popular books of the time and artwork containing poems and commentaries, the volume emphasizes texts currently unavailable in English and translated into entertaining, vibrant prose. ER -