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  • Legends of the Samurai

    de Hiroaki Sato ...
    This authoritative history of Japan's elite warrior class separates fact from myth as it chronicles centuries of samurai combat, culture, and legend.In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato examines the history of these medieval Japanese warriors, as well as the many long-standing myths that surround them. In doing so, he presents an authentic and revealing picture of these men and their world. ... Leer más

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  • On Haiku

    de Hiroaki Sato ...
    Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the “finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English” (Gary Snyder)Who doesn’t love haiku? It is not only America’s most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its simplicity and ... Leer más

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  • Cold Mountain Zen

    An eclectic collection of poetry by Hanshan, the legendary 8th-century Buddhist monk, compiled by Hiroaki Sato, who adds wonderful material on him by Akutagawa and Mori OgaiThe Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan (“cold mountain”) and his friend Shide (“foundling”) are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, mystics, crazy hermits, Taoists, and ... Leer más

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  • Basho's Narrow Road

    Spring and Autumn Passages

    de Matsuo Basho ...
    Traducido por Hiroaki Sato ...
    Series series Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
    A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece.Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen ... Leer más

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  • Forty-Seven Samurai

    A Tale of Vengeance & Death in Haiku and Letters

    de Hiroaki Sato ...
    the subject of the book is one of the most famous true samurai revenge tales in Japanese history, and was in 2013 made into a Hollywod movie with Keanu Reevesauthor Sato is well known to readers of Japanese literature and samurai history and has been called "“the pre-eminent translator of Japanese poetry in our time"tales of samurai loyalty and bushido are evergreen with American readers... ... Leer más

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  • Cat Town

    Traducido por Hiroaki Sato ...
    Series series NYRB Poets
    Modernist poet Sakutarō Hagiwara’s first published book, Howling at the Moon, shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan. Two of its poems were removed on order of the Ministry of the Interior for “disturbing social customs.” Along with the entirety of Howling, this volume includes all of Blue Cat, Hagiwara's second major collection, together with Cat Town, a ... Leer más

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  • Persona

    A Biography of Yukio Mishima

    de Naoki Inose ...
    A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known ... Leer más

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  • A Bridge of Words

    Views across America and Japan

    de Hiroaki Sato ...
    Prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry Hiroaki Sato recorded his thoughts on American society in mainly two columns across 30-plus years, collected here for the first time.This anthology of over 60 of Sato’s commentaries reflect the writer’s wide-ranging erudition and his unsentimental views of both his native Japan and his adopted American homeland. Broadly he ... Leer más

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  • Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

    An Anthology

    de Hiroaki Sato ...
    Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on through the age of haikai and kanshi to the 19th century, into the contemporary period when books of women's poems have created a sensation.This anthology presents examples of the work of more than 100 ... Leer más

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  • The Silver Spoon

    Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan

    de Kansuke Naka ...
    Traducido por Hiroaki Sato ...
    Winner of the 2017 - 2018 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation PrizeJapan's most beloved memoir from the early twentieth century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood."Perhaps the most admired childhood memoir ever written in Japan, The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into ... Leer más

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    Legends of the Samurai

    de Hiroaki Sato ...
    Narrado por Walter Dixon ...

    Completo

    14 hora 39 minutos

    Over the decades the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, owing to such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo as well as works such as James Clavell's epic Shogun.In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors.Through his masterful ... Leer más

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    The Irish Assassins

    Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England

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    One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans. A new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between ... Leer más

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