Book
Essays on Miyazawa Kenji and Endo Shusaku: Religious Experiences in Japan’s Literature
Kazumitsu Ito
One Peace Books · Paperback · June 6, 2025
Reading lane: Japanese Literary Criticism
This book discusses literary criticism, especially Japanese literature, from the perspective of the theme of “ religious salvation.” As such, my discussion focuses on two writers?Miyazawa Kenji, a Buddhist, and Endo Shusaku, a Christian.
At a Glance
Who It's For
Book Details
- Authors
- Kazumitsu Ito
- Publisher
- One Peace Books
- Published
- June 6, 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Japanese Literary Criticism · Japanese Literary Collections
- Reading lane
- Japanese Literary Criticism
Affinity
Publisher Categories
Japanese Literary Collections
About This Book
This book discusses literary criticism, especially Japanese literature, from the perspective of the theme of “ religious salvation.” As such, my discussion focuses on two writers?Miyazawa Kenji, a Buddhist, and Endo Shusaku, a Christian. Their works appear to reflect their religious experiences strongly. I have endeavored to discuss this point in detail. The final appendix is an examination of the “ simple religious belief of Japanese people” that these two writers have in c...
Read full description
Similar Books
Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings
Sōseki Natsume, Michael Bourdaghs · Columbia University Press
Affinity signal
Japanese Literary Criticism
Japanese Literary Collections
Literature of the Lost Home
Hideo Kobayashi, Paul Anderer · Stanford University Press
Affinity signal
Japanese Literary Criticism
Japanese Literary Collections
Tales of Tears and Laughter
Virginia Skord · University of Hawaii Press
Affinity signal
Japanese Literary Collections
Japanese Literary Criticism
Imagining Harmony
Peter Flueckiger · Stanford University Press
Affinity signal
Japanese Literary Criticism
Japanese Literary Collections
The Siren’s Lament
Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki, Bryan Karetnyk · Pushkin Press
Affinity signal
Japanese Literary Collections
Japanese Literary Criticism
The Frontier Within
Kōbō Abe, Richard Calichman · Columbia University Press
Affinity signal
Japanese Literary Criticism
Japanese Literary Collections
Bushido: the Samurai Code of Japan
Inazo Nitobe, Alexander Bennett · Tuttle Publishing
Affinity signal
Military Strategy
Japanese Literary Criticism
A Fictional Commons
Michael K. Bourdaghs · Duke University Press
Affinity signal
Japanese Literary Criticism
Japanese Literary Collections