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Donald Keene

Author of Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the… (also Editor) (Editor) 432 copies
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1 (Editor) 270 copies
Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the… (Editor) 163 copies, 1 review
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day 149 copies, 1 review
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2 (Editor) 97 copies
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu (also Translator) (Translator) 72 copies, 1 review
World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 61 copies
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 61 copies, 1 review
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed… 50 copies
Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers 49 copies
Travelers of a Hundred Ages 47 copies
Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late… 47 copies
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Owl Books) 41 copies
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion : The Creation of the Soul of Japan 36 copies, 1 review

The Pleasures of Japanese Literature 36 copies

20 Plays of the No Theatre 31 copies

Appreciations of Japanese Culture 30 copies

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era (Fiction) 28 copies

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 28 copies

Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan 27 copies, 1 review

Living Japan 26 copies

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers 23 copies, 1 review

On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures (Kodansha… 23 copies

The Major Plays of Chikamatsu 22 copies, 1 review

Eikoh Hosoe: Kamaitachi 16 copies

Five Modern Japanese Novelists 14 copies, 2 reviews

Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 11 copies

No and Bunraku 11 copies

Bunraku, the Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre 10 copies

Anthology of Japanese Literature 2 Volumes 10 copies

Landscapes & Portraits 9 copies

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Death in Midsummer and Other stories (Translator, some editions) 493 copies, 7 reviews
After the Banquet (Translator, some editions) 363 copies, 4 reviews
No Longer Human (Translator, some editions) 362 copies, 12 reviews
Essays in Idleness (Translator, some editions) 247 copies, 1 review
Five Modern Nō Plays (Translator, some editions) 81 copies, 1 review
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume II (Composer) 12 copies

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Keene, Donald Lawrence

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New York, New York, USA

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New York, New York, USA

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Columbia University (BA-'42 ∙ MA-'47 ∙ PhD-'49)

U.S. Navy Japanese Language School

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Kyoto University

University of Cambridge (MA ∙ LittD)

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American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1986)

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Kikuchi Kan Prize (1962)

The Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class (Japanese Government ∙ 1993)

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation (2003)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1982)

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Keene's A History of Japanese Literature

Sources of Japanese Tradition

Introduction to Asian Civilizations

Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

Anthology of Chinese Literature

Companions to Asian Studies

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