...J. Thomas Rimer A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 2: The Years of Isolation. Volume 3: The Modern Years . By Shuichi Kato . Translated by Don Sanderson . New York : Kodansha International , 1983 . Vol. 2 , 230 pp. Vol. 3, 307 pp. Glossary, Bibliographical Notes, Index in each...

...J. Thomas Rimer Mirror for the Moon. A Selection of Poems by Saigyō . Translated by William LaFleur . New York : New Directions , 1978 . xxvi, 100 pp. Bibliography, Index of First Lines. $10.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979...

...J. Thomas Rimer After Apocalpyse: Four Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . By Hotta Kiyomi , Tanaka Chikao , Betsuyaku Minoru , and Satoh Makoto . Selected, translated, and introduced by David G. Goodman . New York : Columbia University Press , 1986 . xiv, 325 pp. Illus., Notes...

...J. Thomas Rimer The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature . By Hisaaki Yamanouchi , London, New York, and Melbourne : Cambridge University Press , 1978 . x, 214 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $21.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980...

...Thomas Rimer A Play of Mirrors . By Ōoka Makoto and Thomas Fitzsimmons . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1987 . 308 pp. $28.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). A Thousand Steps … and More . By Yoshimasu Gōzō . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1987 . 178 pp. $14.95...

...Eric J. Gangloff Mori Ogai . By J. Thomas Rimer . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1975 . 135 pp. Bibliography, Index. $6.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 696 BOOK REVIEWS rather the hero's dissolution into nature. Mathy's Mori Ogai. BY J. THOMAS RIMER...

...Marleigh Grayer Ryan Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions: An Introduction . By J. Thomas Rimer . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1978 . 313 pp. Appendix I: Taketori Monogatari , Appendix II: A Brief Bibliography for Further Reading, Index. $15.00. Copyright ©...

...William J. Tyler Pilgrimages: Aspects of Japanese Literature and Culture . By J. Thomas Rimer . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1988 . xii , 146 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 625 Pilgrimages: Aspects of Japanese...

... are relatively few. Rimer discusses Ogai's work more as intellectual and spiritual autobiography than as the art and craft of writing fiction and drama. His main concern is to seek out the threads of intellectual and spiritual continuity and development in Ogai's works; from this point of view, works of minor...

...Edward Seidensticker Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre. Kishida Kunio . By J. Thomas Rimer . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1974 . viii, 275 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $14.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 834 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Phyllis I. Lyons The Incident at Sakai and Other Stories and Saiki Kōi and Other Stories . (Volumes I and II of the Historical Literature of Mori Ōgai.) Edited by David Dilworth and J. Thomas Rimer . Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works...

...John K. Gillespie Mask and Sword: Two Plays for the Contemporary Japanese Theater by Yamazaki Masakazu . Translated by J. Thomas Rimer . New York : Columbia University Press (Modern Asian Literature Series), 1980 . 221 pp. Illustrations, Interview with Yamazaki Masakazu. $20...

...Maki Kaneko Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868–2000 . Edited by J. Thomas Rimer ; translations by Toshiko MacCallum . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2012 . x, 516 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Christine Guth Old Taoist: The Life, Art, and Poetry of Kodōjin . By Stephen Addiss . Translation of and commentary on Chinese poems by Jonathan Chaves. With an essay by J. Thomas Rimer. New York : Columbia University Press , 2000 . xiv, 173 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association...

...Mark H. Sandler BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 417 Paris in Japan: The Japanese Encounter with European Painting. By SHUJI TAKASHINA and J. THOMAS RIMER with GERALD D. BOLAS. St. Louis: Washington University Press, 1987. 287 pp. While the influence of Japan on French art of the late nineteenth century...

...Arthur H. Thornhill, III On The Art Of Nō Drama: The Major Treatises Of Zeami . Translated by J. Thomas Rimer and Yamazaki Masakazu . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1984 . xlx, 298 pp. Illustrations, Glossaries, Selected Bibliography in Western Languages, Index. $35...

...David G. Goodman The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theatre . By Senda Akihiko . Translated by J. Thomas Rimer . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1997 . xix, 306 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 211...

... of human dignity. Mathy rejects this view as a simplistic Western interpretation; he develops a convincing argument that the ending is not a humanistic resolution but 696 BOOK REVIEWS rather the hero's dissolution into nature. Mathy's Mori Ogai. BY J. THOMAS RIMER. Boston: dissatisfaction with the novel...

... the feeling that Rimer has grasped the pulse of the literature as it is known in Japan. This reaction is enhanced by his caution in advancing his theses in a forceful manner as if he were hesitating on the brink of discovery without daring to go all the way to the heart of the matter. This caution seems...

...Ann Waswo Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years . Edited by J. Thomas Rimer . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1990 . xii, 308 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 942 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...