Donald Richie
Birth date: April 17, 1924
Died: February 19, 2013
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Donald Richie (1924-2013) is one of those names in Japanology that of course you've known about forever. It wasn't until today, however, that I finally read one of his books. Seidensticker I've read through his translations since I was seventeen and then finally his non-fiction book last week. I'm n...
...wow amazing, only one review. Seidensticker-Keene-Richie, the big three of Japan studies...hmm, if military history is a world of ten people, Japan studies is just five. Ruth Benedict + one other person I think round out the entire post-war Japan studies group, although there are a bunch of new n...
As Richie explains in his preface, he has deliberately chosen to write A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics as a zuihitsu , the form in which many influential Japanese chose to address aesthetic matters. Such an essay is not logically organized, not linear, not deductive. The author is supposed to "...
"Inevitably, an uneasy balance is established between our interest in the man and our interest in his books. Gone are the days when we could enjoy Hamlet and not interest ourselves in Shakespeare: vulgar curiosity about biographical anecdotes is a characteristic of our time, increased tenfold by the...
This, truly, is a stellar book.Round about p. 286, I thought I would give up on it. There were many interesting anecdotes, a lot of open talk about sex (homosexual) - and it really didn't add up to much. But then, as Richie aged, the book itself began to gather weight and gravity and a certain cent...
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