Download PDF by Donald Richie: The Japan Journals: 1947-2004

By Donald Richie

ISBN-10: 1880656973

ISBN-13: 9781880656976

“Richie might be special a dwelling nationwide treasure.”—Library Journal

"Wonderfully evocative and entire of humor... sincere, introspective, and sometimes poignant."—New York Times

"No one has written with extra focus concerning the strange caliber of exile loved via the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."—London evaluation of Books

"To learn [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any a part of them and you'll definitely locate treasures in regards to the cinema, literature, touring, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and infrequently profound."—Japanese Language and Literature

Donald Richie has been gazing and writing approximately Japan from the instant he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his lifestyles, his fans, and his principles on concerns low and high, The Japan Journals is a checklist of either a state and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and because the writer a long time, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals—now in paperback after the significantly acclaimed hardcover edition—becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a sophisticated lifestyles good lived and captivatingly told.

Donald Richie, the eminent movie historian, novelist, and essayist, nonetheless lives in Tokyo.

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Eighth army signal corps Everyone is smiling—everyone except the policemen, and maybe they are as well beneath their masks. Smiling for the camera, making a good impression, best foot forward. Even in the depths of national poverty everyone remembers this. Up above, on the plaza, around the statue of Saigo Takamori, there are many more, sitting on benches and embankments—all of them waiting. Waiting, it seemed, for this too to pass so that they can get on with their lives. Many have been and gone.

No, no. Literature. I am all literature. Never knew anything about Zen. ” When I would bring up some Buddhist matter, he would answer with an affectionate scorn, “Oh, that stuff. That’s old Suzuki’s department, scarcely mine. ” Then he would quote something. He was a prodigious quoter, could go on for whole paragraphs, and never apparently make a mistake. ” I told him that I didn’t study, not really, just listened to Dr. Suzuki. “Well, that’s better,” he said, as though mollified. Then, “There is nothing the matter with it, you understand.

As always, the author is candid in the presentation—the only question is how truthful he is. Richie apparently tells few lies, but he does excise. The pages that follow have all been several times edited by their author and each revision has seen more excisions. One may judge what was left in, but one can only guess at what was left out. One thing left out was duplication. Richie, like his friend James Merrill, decided that if he had given information in one book he would not repeat it in the next.

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