The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Koyka (1873-1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright

by Charles Shiro Inouye and Kyōka Izumi

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674808169
• ISBN13: 9780674808164
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"