...Jesse F. Steiner The chrysanthemum and the sword . By Ruth Benedict . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1946 . 324 p. $3.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 BOOK REVIEWS 433 The chrysanthemum and the sword. BY RUTH BENEDICT. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. 324...

...Peter Wetzler The Chrysanthemum Throne. A History of the Emperors of Japan . By Peter Martin . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1997 . xi, 175 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 525 the impression of a kind...

...Tamae Prindle The Paper Door and Other Stories . By Shiga Naoya . Translated by Lane Dunlop . San Francisco : North Point Press , 1987 . xiii, 173 pp. A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-one Stories from the Japanese . Translated by Lane Dunlop . San Francisco : North Point Press...

... University The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum: Suicide and Economic Success in Modern Japan. By MAMORU IGA. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xiv, 231 pp. $19-95. Americans viewing Japanese education, influenced by the competitive mood prevailing today, often correlate the high test...

...Christine R. Yano The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora . By Dale A. Olsen . New World Diasporas. Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2004 . xxviii , 342 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Cheryl Crowley The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns . By Howard Hibbett . Tokyo and London : Kodansha International , 2002 . 208 pp. $28.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 955 general...

.... Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan . By Matthew Fraleigh . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . 498 pp. ISBN: 9780674425224 (cloth). The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making...

..., on this volume is neither Chinese nor chrysanthemum/ Along the wall," in Li Ch'ingaccurate; it should have been T'ang Sung shih chao's "Quail Sky"8 (No. 87), which, if the te'u pai-shih-ssu show, for the anthology actually translator had known Chinese better, he might consists of 35 shih by Tu Fu, and 79 shih...

... a good supplementary textbook for introductory courses on Japanese politics or political economy. It has a much more extensive discussion of the role of business than typical texts. It is also very readable and concise. MARK ELDER Michigan State University The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor...

... of democratic culture in the nation. In this sense, the prospects for democracy in Japan remain, as Maruyama knew so well, a particularized form of a universal question. KEVIN M. DOAK University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Chrysanthemum Throne. A History of the Emperors of Japan. By PETER M A R T I N...

...), turns into Dunlop's "He's always messing with gourds or something else, even though he's just a kid" (p. 36). A Late Chrysanthemum is a collection of short stories by seven Japanese novelists, written mostly between the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1905) and the beginning of World War II. Four...

...James R. Hightower Lyrik des Ostens . Herausgegeben von Wilhelm Gundert , Annamarie Schimmel , und Walther Schubring . München : Carl Hanser Verlag , 1952 . 610 pp. 16.80 DM. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 1 Lotus and Chrysanthemum (1927...

... "It is better/ To encourage my frivolity,/ And get drunk with the aroma/ Of my wine cup./1 refuse The decorative Chinese title, Chung-kuo shih to be burdened/ By the yellowing heart/ Of the pai show, on this volume is neither Chinese nor chrysanthemum/ Along the wall," in Li Ch'ingaccurate; it should have been...

... a Chrysanthemum," for instance, is one of the most frequently anthologized poems in Korea; almost every schoolchild can recite it. So is also quite prolific. In addition to eight or nine collections of poems of which Unforgettable Things is the most recent, he has written numerous essays and pieces of literary...

... is not an issue here. On the other hand, the touchstone or open-sesame to The Japanese Factory is feudal tradition dating back at least to Tokugawa days and institutions. Like the earlier diaperology of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, the Abegglen book met with mixed reactions, both in Japan and in the West...

... on the first day of the first month; the hina or doll festival, on the third day of the third month; the boys' festival, on the fifth day of the fifth month; Tanabata, when the heavenly star-lovers meet, on the seventh day of the seventh month; and the chrysanthemum festival on the ninth day of the ninth month...

..., on the third day of the third month; the boys' festival, on the fifth day of the fifth month; Tanabata, when the heavenly star-lovers meet, on the seventh day of the seventh month; and the chrysanthemum festival on the ninth day of the ninth month. This calendar of major Japanese festivals has a Chinese...

... of chigo tales crystallize in noh drama. While there are numerous noh plays in which the main character is a teenage boy, or in which an adult male is portrayed by a boy actor, the figure of the chigo is addressed most directly in the play known as Kiku jidō (Chrysanthemum Boy) in the Kanze school...

...: the unconquered enemy, 194 Barnes, Donald G., Review of India and the Indian ocean, 95 Baykov, Alexander, Soviet foreign trade, 308 Beal, Edwin C , Notes and News, 103; Notes on, 106 Benedict, Paul K., Languages and literatures of Indochina, 379 Benedict, Ruth, The chrysanthemum and the sword, 433 Bennett...

... the dominant theme in The Cuckoo (or Kwichokto) (1946) and Selected Poems (1955), despite his persistent dissatisfaction with ever-promising but never-fulfilling reality. It is in this period that So Chongju produced the much acclaimed poem, VBeside the Chrysanthemum." McCann's English rendition...