...Howard S. Hibbett Abstract In Japan, as in the West, the novelist has become his own favorite character. But the Japanese novelist (or short-story writer) seems less anxious to conceal his predilection than to flaunt it, so many frank self-portraits are there in the gallery of sbōsetsu . He appears...

...Howard S. Hibbett The Hokusai Sketchbooks: Selections from the Manga . By James A. Michener . Tokyo : Turtle, 1958 . 286 . Plates. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 394 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Kyo Machiko at the local movie houses, or zabuton...

...Herbert Passin The Floating World in Japanese Fiction . By Howard Hibbett . New York : Oxford University Press , 1959 . xiii, 232 . Notes, Index, Illustrations. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 346 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES somersault over...

...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...

... Howard Hibbett has now delivered the coup O'Neill was right, but sometimes I thought he de grace with a stunning evocation of Gen- », had missed a phrase, as in the following sen- roku life and art. In six concise, even elegant, tence from the superb account in the Taihei\i chapters, more than a hundred...

... Since the Age ofthe Shoguns. By H O W A R D HIBBETT. Tokyo and London: Kodansha International, 2002. 208 pp. $28.00 (cloth). The Chrysanthemum and the Fish is an erudite yet immensely readable introduction to the comic tradition in Japan. The title parodies that of Ruth Benedict's influential 1946 study...

... Reconstruction" do not give the sources for the page numbers they cite following quotations. Tsuruta and Kathleen Merken give Japanese texts as their sources, but Tsuruta does not mention any English translations of Akutagawa's works and Merken refers to Howard Hibbett's Seven Japanese Tales (New York: Alfred...

... wellhoned narratorial devices" (p. 104). Thus, an act of critical imagination is needed to get beyond the allure of Tanizaki's prose, and the volume on the whole succeeds in engaging his work on equal terms. Indeed, the book provides several models of critical appreciation, notably Howard Hibbett's elegant...

... of critical imagination is needed to get beyond the allure of Tanizaki's prose, and the volume on the whole succeeds in engaging his work on equal terms. Indeed, the book provides several models of critical appreciation, notably Howard Hibbett's elegant essay. Hibbett historicizes Tanizaki's oeuvre in terms...

... translations and wished for others like them. Hoc opus, hie labor est. Some purists doubted the wisdom or possibility of teaching with translations. To Howard Hibbett's sensible reply teach the translation I would append the query whether we should forbid our children the Bible (or Homer) till they master...

... them. Hoc opus, hie labor est. Some purists doubted the wisdom or possibility of teaching with translations. To Howard Hibbett's sensible reply teach the translation I would append the query whether we should forbid our children the Bible (or Homer) till they master Hebrew and Greek. Peter A. Boodberg...

...Denzel Carr Modern Japanese: A Basic Reader. Volume I: Vocabularies and Notes. Volume II: Japanese Texts . By Howard Hibbett and Gen Itasaka . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1965 . v, 248 ; iv, 129; + viii, 306. n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... of 1955. The members of the committee are: Howard S. Hibbett, Department of Oriental Languages, University of California, Los Angeles, California. James R. Hightower, Boylston 39, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Richard D. Lambert, South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania...

... of movable-type printing by the ancient technique of block printing, and the development of large commercial publishing houses. Mr. Hibbett's exposition of the operation of the most important of these, the famous Hachimonjiya, and of the relations among publishers, writers, and illustrators, is a major...

... Press, i960, x, 465. Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $7.25. The Floating World of Japanese Fiction. Tales of the Ukiyo. By HOWARD HIBBETT. New York: Grove Press, i960. An Evergreen Original, xiii, 232. Illustrated, Notes, Index. $1.95 (paper). Literary Worlds of the Tsengs. Complete Poems of Eleven...

... in the United States of America. By ROSE HUM LEE. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press and London: Oxford University Press, i960, x, 465. Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $7.25. The Floating World of Japanese Fiction. Tales of the Ukiyo. By HOWARD HIBBETT. New York: Grove Press, i960. An Evergreen Original...

...-sheng Yang (Harvard). Nominating Committee: John W. Hall (Chairman), Howard S. Hibbett, James R. Hightower, Richard D. Lambert, Frank N. Trager. Far Eastern Quarterly Advisory Editorial Board: W. Theodore de Bary, W. Norman Brown, Morris E. Opler, Horace I. Poleman. Far Eastern Quarterly Associate...

... an illustrious cohort of graduate students at Harvard, which included Marius Jansen, Thomas Smith, Donald Shively, Howard Hibbett, and Robert Scalapino. Under the direction of Edwin Reischauer, who was only six years older than Hall, he completed his Ph.D. in 1950, with a dissertation bearing the prescient title...

... Zeit [D. E. Mills] 293 Levine, Solomon B., Industrial Relations in Postwar Japan [Henry Rosovsky] 392 Michener, James A., The Ho\usai Sketchbooks [Howard S. Hibbett] 394 Miner, Earl, The Japanese Tradition in British and American Literature [E. G. Seidensticker] 141 Miyazawa, Toshiyoshi, Nihon\o\u...

... Island in Dr. Nurge 1951, was states that Harp of Burma. By MICHIO TAKEYAMA. mont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1966. Howard Hibbett. $3.50. Rutland, VerTranslated by as of 1955-1956 "no systematic anthropological Slums and Community Development: Experiments in investigation had been undertaken in the Self...