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- Essential essays by the inimitable Donald Richie, who wrote on with unparalled acuity on Japanese art and culture.No one has written more, or more artfully, about Japan and Japanese culture than Donald Richie.
- IndieFab awards (Anthology) 2001 2nd Winner
- About the Author: Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews.
- 276 Pages
- Literary Collections, Essays
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50 years of writing about Japan, from postwar to the age of Pokémon.
Book Synopsis
Essential essays by the inimitable Donald Richie, who wrote on with unparalled acuity on Japanese art and culture.
No one has written more, or more artfully, about Japan and Japanese culture than Donald Richie. Richie moved to Tokyo just after World War II. And he is still there, still writing.
This book is the first compilation of the best of Richie's writings on Japan, with excerpts from his critical work on film (Richie helped introduce Japanese film to the West in the late 1950s) and his unpublished private journal, plus fiction, Zen musings, and masterful essays on culture, travel, people, and style. With a critical introduction and full bibliography.
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"To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound." - Japanese Language and Literature
About the Author
Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.
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