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...John Ashmead Two Japanese Novelists, Soseki and Toson . By Edwin McClellan . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1969 . xii, 168 pp. Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 195 Harvard East Asian Series, most if not all of which...

...James A. Fujii The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism . By Michael K. Bourdaghs . New York : Columbia University Press , 2003 . x, 273 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 796 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U...

...Kären Wigen Shimazaki Tōson (1872–1943) may well have been prewar Japan's most prolific man of letters; he was also among its most controversial. Tōson's massive oeuvre left a lasting mark on Japanese poetry, fiction, and literary criticism alike, helping to craft the confessional voice...

...Michael C. Brownstein Before the Dawn . By Toson Shimazaki . Translated by William E. Naff . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1987 . xxxii, 736 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 650 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES "Like all voyagers...

...Jay Rubin The Family . By Toson Shimazaki translated and with an introduction by Cecilia Segawa Seigle . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1976 . xxxiii , 311 pp. $16.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 148 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES source...

..., but the collection, which includes the work of three translators, gives full play to his luxuriant language. THOMAS RIMER University of Maryland, College Park Before the Dawn. By TOSON SHIMAZAKI. Translated by WILLIAM E. N A F F . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. xxxii, 736 pp. $30.00. In the introduction...

.... "Dictionaries and Encyclopedias," although it is $16.00 neither but rather a collection of thousands of Few autobiographical novelists can have been plates of paintings. (These plates were not in- blessed with more scandalous material than dexed by Roberts in the artists' entries, an un- Shimazaki Toson; his...

...William E. Naff The Broken Commandment . By Shimazaki Tōson . Translated and with an introduction by Kenneth Strong . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1974 (first paperback printing, 1977). xxv, 249 pp. ¥1,800. (Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by ISBS.) $12.95 cloth; $7.95 paper...

..., n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 196 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES republished here two monographs from the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, on two early modern Japanese novelists, Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) and Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). The two...

..., As if trying to tell me something. . . Modern Japanese Poetry has a number of admirable features, not the least of which is its historical range. Like many similar anthologies, it begins with Toson. The conspicuous poets of late Meiji and of Taisho are here, Kitahara Hakushu, Yamamura Bocho, and others...

.... The translation powerfully supports his thesis that The Miner was simply too far ahead of its time and that external circumstances, not internal deficiencies, led to its initial rejection and subsequent obscurity. When Shimazaki Toson's Haru was not ready for its scheduled appearance as an Asahi serial, Soseki...

... supports his thesis that The Miner was simply too far ahead of its time and that external circumstances, not internal deficiencies, led to its initial rejection and subsequent obscurity. When Shimazaki Toson's Haru was not ready for its scheduled appearance as an Asahi serial, Soseki filled the breach...

... scholarship. Fujii's innovative and provocative readings of eight kindai shosetsu (modern (Japanese] novel, or, to use Fujii's somewhat awkward non-Orientalist rendition, modern Japanese prose narrative) Shimazaki Toson's Kyushujin (Former Master, 1902) and Hakai (The Broken Commandment, 1906), Natsume...

... on to muse in great detail on the composition and significance of this "epochal voyage" (p. 103). Needless to say, the sole purpose of this scene is to allow Toson to mention the Kanrin Maru, but one is left wondering how Kansai could have known so much about a ship he had never seen before. Over the space...

... Shimazaki Toson and such artists as Fujita Tsuguji, Saeki Yiizo, and Umehara Ryuzaburo. We are taken there to appreciate in both narrative and pictorial form what Rimer calls in a happy turn of phrase "Aware on the Seine." As the color photographs indicate, it is a rich and varied experience...

... the other naturalists, he was greatly under the influence of such late-nineteenth-century French writers as Zola." This may have been true of Kosugi Tengai and the young Nagai Kafii, who are not considered "naturalists," but we know that Shimazaki Toson for one was inclined to find Zola rather funny...

... commenting on Tokuda Shusei, he says: "Like the other naturalists, he was greatly under the influence of such late-nineteenth-century French writers as Zola." This may have been true of Kosugi Tengai and the young Nagai Kafii, who are not considered "naturalists," but we know that Shimazaki Toson for one...

... with Toson. The conspicuous poets of late Meiji and of Taisho are here, Kitahara Hakushu, Yamamura Bocho, and others, in addition to the already mentioned Yosano Akiko. But most of the poets in this volume have been active during the Showa period, the beginning of which saw the introduction of Modernism...

..., or, to use Fujii's somewhat awkward non-Orientalist rendition, modern Japanese prose narrative) Shimazaki Toson's Kyushujin (Former Master, 1902) and Hakai (The Broken Commandment, 1906), Natsume Soseki's Wagahai wa neko dearu (I Am a Cat, 1905-6) and Kokoro (1914), Tokuda Shusei's Arajotai (The New...

... and versa- he sums up as: "Forget about these problems, live tile figure of the late Meiji literary world. He sincerely, be faithful to self, entrust yourself to produced not only poetry and novels as did So- nature and live with her in full harmony. " seki and Toson but also drama in modern and Not a few...