...David Fahy Akutagawa and Dazai: Instances of Literary Adaptation . By James O'Brien . Tempe : Arizona State University , 1988 . x , 149 pp. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 623 treks through the mountains in South Korea...

...Tetsuo Najita Abstract This essay deals with the concept of “political economism” (keiseisaimin) as expressed by Dazai Shundai, one of the leading practical thinkers in the school of “ancient studies” in early eighteenth century Japan. It argues for the need to look seriously at “traditional...

...Ivan Morris Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 Dazai Osamu . By James A. O'Brien . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1975 . 179 pp. Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index. $8.50 500 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in the 1920s and 1930s. Although...

...Van C. Gessel The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations . By Phyllis I. Lyons . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1985 . xi, 410 pp. Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $38.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK...

...Phyllis I. Lyons Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp . By Dazai Osamu . Translated by James Westerhoven . Tokyo : Kodansha International , 1985 . xxviii, 189 pp. Photographs, Appendixes, Map. $16.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 590 JOURNAL...

...Charles E. Hamilton The Setting Sun . By Osamu Dazai . Tr. Donald Keene . New York : New Directions , 1956 . xviii, 189 . $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 310 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES world, a sort of wistful humor, and a very conservative...

... available. In his preface, Professor Skinner states that he hopes to remedy the deficiencies of this volume with subsequent publications; we eagerly await them. Swarthmore College LILLIAN M. LI Dazai Osamu. BY JAMES A. O'BRIEN. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1975. 179 pp. Notes and References, Selected...

... Tōmonsho (Nihon rinri then , VI, 147–203). Written in question and answer form, this piece presents the basic theories of Ogyū as he expounded them more formally in Bendō and Bemmei . It is penned in kanamajiribun , a style that is still relatively readable. 24 Dazai documented his views...

... be widely read by scholars as well as by the general public. It should also be translated into Japanese. TSUYOSHI HASEGAWA Hokkaido University Akutagawa and Dazai: Instances of Literary Adaptation. By JAMES O ' B R I E N . Tempe: Arizona State University, 1988. x, 149 pp. $8.00. "Literary adaptation" might...

... them it was one of the few recognized schools of literature. In short, though the translation is welcome, the remainder of this book cannot be recommended as even a temporarily useful introduction to modern Japanese fiction. Stanford University ROBERT H . BEOWER The Setting Sun. By OSAMTJ DAZAI. Tr...

... Congress”], Bungaku , XXIX ( 05 1961 ), 9 – 27 . 32 “Bungakusha no teikei ni tsuite” [“On the Cooperation of Writers”], Kobayashi Hideo Zenshū , VI, 207 – 210 . 33 Ozaki , p. 22 . 34 Kaizō , XXIV ( 09 1942 ), 123 . 35 Dazai Osamu Zenshū...

..., as a taxicab driver. Serving for many years as a member of the Bulletin ofConcerned Asian Scholars Editorial Board, Alan remained engaged with CCAS and its Bulletin to the end of his life. Alan and his family spent the early 1970s in Japan, where he conducted research for his dissertation on the writer Dazai...

..., the remainder of this book cannot be recommended as even a temporarily useful introduction to modern Japanese fiction. Stanford University ROBERT H . BEOWER The Setting Sun. By OSAMTJ DAZAI. Tr. DONALD KEENE. New York: New Directions, 1956. xviii, 189. $3.00. In sheer novelistic force Osamu Dazai's Shayo...

... the sense of loss that underlies the work, and stresses the impor- image of sand that unifies the action of the novel. Noting that it is impossible to approach tance of the youngest sister Taeko's role in building up this sense of loss. Dazai Osamu's The Setting Sun by means of con- Approaches is the first...

.... JACKSON N. HUDDLESTON, JR. Huddles ton Associates, Tokyo Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple T r a m p . By DAZAI OSAMU. Translated by JAMES WESTERHOVEN. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985. xxviii, 189 pp. Photographs, Appendixes, Map. $16.95. There are now two translations of Dazai Osamu's Tsugaru...

... main authors examined here the salamander in Ibuse Masuji's Sanshouo, the rabbit in Dazai Osamu's Kachikachiyama, and the frog in Inoue Hisashi's Omoteura Gennai kaeru gassen hold a fascination verging on the taxidermical. Cohn's purpose, to substantiate and flesh out a comic spirit in modern Japanese...

... reading. The seashore to which the protagonist in Dazai's "A Golden Picture" escapes and witnesses his former maid's happy family, as well as the new light bulb in the same author's "The Garden Lantern" are external factors that have a bearing on the characters. But nature becomes as marginal in Dazai's...

... into the trap of over- and prosperous communities. Many of the shrines praising his subject. He makes it abundantly dear had a miserable appearance, as the Chief of the that Dazai had difficulty in creating a fictional Shrine Bureau wrote: "There are shrines with world and in organizing plot (weaknesses...

... whether or not these creatures symbolize Shimaki's fellow communists who refused to abandon their beliefs, but Dunlop makes no mention of that possible reading. The seashore to which the protagonist in Dazai's "A Golden Picture" escapes and witnesses his former maid's happy family, as well as the new...

... Ibid., 585. 10 Ibid., 586, bun o motte tsune o mamoru; bu o motte hen o shosu. A similar set of expressions is also on p. 611. 9 Ibid., 587. 8 Ryūshi shinron , pp. 585–587. 7 Dazai Shundai is an important figure in the development of late eighteenth century...