Beautiful Town: Stories and Essays

by Haruo Sat

Sato Haruo has been called one of the most representative writers of the Taisho era (1912-1926), a transitional period following Japan's monumental push toward modernization. Although he never identified himself as a modernist, Sato exhibited what some writers have identified as a characteristic of modernism: a complex net of contradictory impulses that embrace both the revolutionary and the conservative, revealing both an optimistic looking to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824817044
• ISBN13: 9780824817046
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"