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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… (Editor) 403 copies
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1 (also Editor) 232 copies
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day 142 copies, 1 review
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2 (also Editor) 87 copies
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Translator) 64 copies, 1 review
World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 53 copies
Emperor of Japan 53 copies, 1 review
Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers 46 copies
Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late… 45 copies
Travelers of a Hundred Ages 44 copies
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed… 42 copies
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Owl Books) 34 copies
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion : The Creation of the Soul of Japan 33 copies, 1 review
The Pleasures of Japanese Literature 28 copies

Appreciations of Japanese Culture 27 copies

Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan 26 copies, 1 review

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 26 copies

Living Japan 25 copies

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era (Fiction) 25 copies

20 Plays of the No Theatre 24 copies

On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures (Kodansha… 22 copies

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers… 19 copies, 1 review

The Major Plays of Chikamatsu 18 copies, 1 review

Eikoh Hosoe: Kamaitachi 15 copies

Five Modern Japanese Novelists 10 copies, 2 reviews

Anthology of Japanese Literature 2 Volumes 9 copies

Some Japanese Portraits 9 copies

Japan At The Dawn Of The Modern Age: Woodblock Prints From the Meiji Era 9 copies

The Tale of the Shining Princess 9 copies

Landscapes & Portraits 9 copies

No and Bunraku 8 copies

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No Longer Human (Translator, some editions) 300 copies, 10 reviews
Essays in Idleness (Translator, some editions) 215 copies, 1 review

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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

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