From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan's great m...
The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the Englis...
Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan-tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway wo...
A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washin...
The world's first novel, in a translation that is 'likely to be the definitive edition . . . for ...
An abridged edition of the world's first novel, in a translation that is 'likely to be the defini...
Japanese nõ theatre or the drama of 'perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth ce...
The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese liter...
The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic; a masterpiece of world literature and the pr...
In this annotated translation and study of an early fourteenth-century Japanese devotional pictur...
Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator...
'Royall Tyler's translations are nothing short of superb-crisp, restrained, ably balancing the ri...