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Japan Journals, The (Kindle eBook)
1947-2004
by: Donald Richie
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After half a century in Japan: the intimate journals of the great film scholar and cultural observer
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Price : US$9.99
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B0029F1NTG
510 pp, paper, 6 x 9", 75 b/w photographs
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$ "One of his era’s most influential and ubiquitous writers on Japan.”
—New York Times profile, 8 August 2001
"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
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Description
Donald Richie has been observing and
writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946.
Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals
is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As
Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals—now
in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition—becomes a
bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and
captivatingly told.
Donald Richie,
ex-curator of film at the New York Museum of Modern Art, is best known
as the leading Western authority on Japanese film, but he has also
written on many other aspects of the country in books such as The Inland Sea and the collection released in 2001 as The Donald Richie Reader.
Leza Lowitz has written, co-edited, or co-translated eleven books on Japan and currently lives in Tokyo. Her most recent publication is Green Tea to Go, a collection of short stories.
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