Marra (Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics; U. of California-Los Angeles) interweaves his own thoughts on interpreting Japanese literary texts with critical essays by Japanese scholars o
Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra’s essays written in the past ten years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects.
Marra (Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics; U. of California-Los Angeles) translates and comments on Japanese intellectual Norinaga's (1730-1801) Sugagasa no Nikki (The Sedge Hat Diary),
Best known for his interpretations of Western Continental philosophy, Japan's Kuki Shuzo (1888-1941) was also the author of several collections of poetry. This volume contains translations of his coll