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Tag Archives: literature
Job Opening: Japanese Literature and Culture
Assistant Professor in Early and Classical Japanese Literature and Culture University of Colorado Boulder The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early and Classical Japanese … Continue reading
Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies
Indiana University – Bloomington, East Asian Languages and Cultures Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in Indiana University’s School of Global and Interantional Studies invites applications for … Continue reading
Resource: Japanese Children’s Literature: A History from the International Library of Children’s Literature Collections
Japan’s National Diet Library (NDL) has a ton of digitized resources in both English and Japanese. So much so that sometimes it’s easy to forget how many of those resources have been curated into mini-exhibitions or databases geared toward specific … Continue reading
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Tagged books, children, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, literature studies, writing
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Book Announcement: Penguin Book of Haiku
The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, haiku, Japanese culture, Japanese literature, Japanese poetry, japanese studies, literature, poetry, translation
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Call for Papers: Japanologist’s Playground 2018 “Fictions & Reality”
The Department of Japanese Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) and Polish Association for Japanese Studies invite panel and paper proposals for the International Conference to be held on 29 November – 1 December 2018 at NCU in Torun, Poland. The conference is meant … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Heaven’s Wind (Amatsukaze) – a dual language anthology of contemporary Japanese writing
Edited and translated by Ekuni, Kaori, Kakuta, Mitsuyo, Kuroda, Natsuko, Matsuda, Aoko, Mukoda, Kuniko, Turvill, Angus Heaven’s Wind is a collection of short stories by five of Japan’s leading contemporary authors: Kuniko Mukoda – The Otter; Natsuko Kuroda – Ball, Kaori Ekuni – Summer … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds – A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales Edited by Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, … Continue reading
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