Masterpieces on Japan by Foreign Authors

Chapter 1. Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, The Frigate Pallada.- Chapter 2. Sir Rutherford Alcock, The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan.- Chapter 3. Ernest Mason Satow, A Diplomat in Japan.- Chapter 4. William Elliot Griffis, The Mikado's Empire.- Chapter 5. Emile Etienne Guimet, Promenades Japonaises Tokio-Nikko, Félix Régamey, Japon.- Chapter 6. Huang Zunxian, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects from Japan.- Chapter 7. Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan.- Chapter 8. Percival Lowell, The Soul of the Far East.- Chapter 9. Pierre Loti, Japoneries d'automne.- Chapter 10. Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese.- Chapter 10. Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.- Chapter 11. Lady Fraser, A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan - Letters from Home to Home.- Chapter 12. Ludwig Riess, Allerlei aus Japan.- Chapter 13. Erwin von Bälz (Baelz), Erwin von Bälz. Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan.- Chapter 14. Mus afa Kamil Pasha, Al-Shams al-Mushriqa (Rising Sun).- Chapter 15. Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design.- Chapter 16. Edward Sylvester Morse, Japan Day by Day 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83.- Chapter 17. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism.- Chapter 18. Wenceslau de Moraes, Ó-Yoné e Ko-Haru.- Chapter 19. Paul Claudel, L'Oiseau noir dans le Soleil levant.- Chapter 20. Dai Jitao, Theory of Japan.- Chapter 21. Zhou Zuoren, A Personal View of Japan.- Chapter 22. Lady Sansom, Living in Tokyo.- Chapter 23. Bruno Taut, Das japanische Haus und sein Leben.- Chapter 24. Joseph Clark Grew, Ten Years in Japan: A Contemporary Record Drawn from the Diaries and Private and Official Papers of Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932-1942.- Chapter 25. Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture.- Chapter 26. Leocadio de Asis, From Bataan to Tokyo, Diary of a Filipino Student in Wartime Japan 1943-1944.-

Sh ichi Saeki

Sh ichi Saeki was born on April 26, 1922 (Taish 11) and graduated from the Department of English Literature at the University of Tokyo in 1943. He was a professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Tokyo, a professor at Chu University, and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo (specializing in American and Japanese literature). He died on January 1, 2016 (Heisei 28). His major works include Nihonjin no jiden (Autobiography of the Japanese) (Tokyo: K dansha, 1974), Monogatari geijutsu ron (Narrative Art Theory) (Tokyo: K dansha, 1979), winner of the Yomiuri Literature Award, and Jiden no seiki (Century of Autobiography) Tokyo: K dansha, 1985), awarded the Art Encouragement Prize.

 

T ru Haga 


T ru Haga was born in 1931(Showa 6), and graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.A. in Liberal Arts and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Culture.  He specialized in comparative literature and modern Japanese comparative cultural history and was president emeritus of Kyoto University of Art and Design, director of the Okazaki City Museum of Art, and director of the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. He died in 2020 (Reiwa 2).His writings include Taikun no shisetsu (Mission of the Tycoon) (Tokyo: Chuk Shinsho, 1968); Watanabe Kazan (Tokyo: Asahi Sensho, 1974); Hiraga Gen'nai (Tokyo: Asahi Hy densen, 1981), awarded the Suntory Prize for Arts and Letters; Kaiga no ry bun (The Domain of Art) (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1984), winner of the Osaragi Jir Prize; Yosa Buson no chiisana sekai (The Little World of Yosa Buson); (Tokyo: Chuok ron Shinsha, 1984); Shiika no mori e (To Forest of Poetry) (Tokyo: Chuk Shinsho, 2002); and Geijutsu no kuni Nippon: Gabun k ky (Japan-The Land of the Arts: A symphony of painting and literature) (Tokyo: Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan, 2010).