The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Koyka (1873-1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright By Charles Shiro Inouye; Kyōka Izumi
1998 | 397 Pages | ISBN: 0674808169 | PDF | 188 MB
This work asserts that Kyoka's writings were a refinement of a vision that came into focus around 1900; that this narrative archetype formed the aesthetic and ethical bases of his work; and that Kyoka, despite modernist imports from the West, did not jettison Japanese literary tradition.