Noguchi Project Editions
Early Essays
By Yone Noguchi
A new collection of Yone Noguchi's groundbreaking early essays.
Yone Noguchi, the first writer of Japanese ancestry to publish books of English poetry and fiction, was also a ground-breaking essayist who introduced American and British readers to many Japan-related subjects. His earliest essays, published from 1903 to 1906, are collected for the first time in this volume.
List Price: $14.99
5.25" x 8" (13.335 x 20.32 cm)
330 pages
ISBN: 978-1939913067 (paper)
978-1939913074 (ebook)
Publisher: Botchan Books
Publication date: September 7, 2022
About Early Essays
Yone Noguchi, the first writer of Japanese ancestry to publish books of English poetry and fiction, was also a ground-breaking essayist who introduced American and British readers to a variety of Japan-related subjects. In his earliest essays, published from 1903 to 1906, collected in this volume for the first time, Noguchi introduces English-language haiku, modern Japanese fiction and poetry, Japanese women writers, modern Japanese painters and illustrators, and modern drama, including the latest attraction on the Japanese stage: Shakespeare. He explores Japanese humor-writing, journalism, and translations of English books, explores problems of translating Japanese poetry, and considers the movement to Romanize the Japanese language. He writes of American and British writers of his acquantance, interviews prominent Japanese, including politician Hirobumi Ito, geisha-actress Sada Yacco, Vassar graduate and society trend-setter Sutematsu Oyama, and Setsuko Koizumi, widow of the late Lafcadio Hearn, and discusses characteristic Japanese cultural subjects, including geisha, actors' wives, hairstyles and babies. He describes his own life as a Japanese immigrant, traveler, and author, including his friendships with American and British writers, and his return to Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. Five previously unpublished essays, on Japanese emigration, sumo wrestling, and bushido, are included. The volume includes an introduction by Edward Marx, full illustrations, and notes on sources.
Contents
- In the World of Achievement
- Hokusai, the Famous Japanese Artist
- Tokyo by Night
- Japan’s Greatest Actor is Gone
- How Othello was Made Over for the Japanese Stage
- Admiration From Japan
- How Poor Young Japanese Educate Themselves in America
- Seitei Watanabe
- A Proposal to American Poets
- Edwin Markham
- What English Books are Known in Japan?
- The Evolution of Modern Japanese Literature
- Journalism in Japan
- Popular Songs of Japan
- Modern Japanese Women Writers
- Tokutomi’s ‘Nami-Ko’
- Japanese Humor and Caricature
- Theatres and Theatre-Going in Japan
- Japanese Women in Literature
- Koyo Ozaki
- Japanese Babies
- Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘Kwaidan’
- The Evolution of the Japanese Stage
- ‘To Suffer is Only Natural for the Japanese Poor’
- The Real Geisha
- The Passing of Lafcadio Hearn
- Modern Japanese Illustrators
- Okuma on Japan’s Future
- The Fighting Spirit of Japan is Found in the Rural Districts
- A Conversation with Mrs. Lafcadio Hearn
- The Geisha Girl of Japan
- How Japs Observe New Year’s
- With the Poet of Light and Joy
- Monuments of Flowers are Built to the Dead
- Marchioness Oyama, Japan’s Social Leader
- Shakespeare in Japan
- Japanese Artists Ignore the War
- On the Romanization of the Japanese Script
- A Translation of the Imperial Poems
- The Younger Poets of Present Japan
- Royal Poets of Japan
- Death of Lafcadio Hearn
- Soul of Japanese Woman is in Her Hair
- Modern Japanese Writers and their Reading Public
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
- With Rossetti in London
- Sada Yacco
- A Day with Marquis Ito
- Japan’s Modern Novelists
- Actors’ Wives in Japan
- A Japanese View of the Books about Japan
- The Japanese Wrestlers
- Japanese in America and Some Other Foreign Countries
- Spirit of Japan
- Two Japanese Artists in New York
About the author
Yone Noguchi (1875-1947) was a key figure in international modernism, promoting international discovery of Japanese culture, the development of Asian-American and Anglo-Japanese literature, and the internationalization of Japan. He was the father of artist Isamu Noguchi and the partner of Leonie Gilmour. Editor Edward Marx is the author of numerous books and articles on the Noguchis. For information on Noguchi Project Editions and Botchan Books, see www.botchanmedia.com.
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