<html> <title>Friday Japanese Literature Reading Group</title> <body> <table border=0> Univ. of Washington, Japanese Literature Reading Group
Meeting at Cafe Allegro (42nd and the Ave) most Fridays, 3:30-5ish <tr><th><th>Date<th>Author<th>Title<th>Period <tr> <td><img src=./images/kenji.jpg width=80%> <td>03/??/07 <td>Miyazawa KENJI <td>Poetry from Spring and Asura
(Haru to shura) <td>Modern (Taisho: 1920s) <tr> <td><img src=http://ddb.libnet.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit/otogi/sai/sai06.jpg> <td>02/23/07 <td>??? <td>The Tale of Saigyo (Saigyo monogatari)
(a link to a synopsis: Otogi-zoshi version of the tale) <td>Medieval (13th century?) <tr> <td><img src=./images/chieko.jpg width=90%> <td>02/09/07 ** upcoming ** <td>Takamura Kotaro (1883-1956) <td>Chieko's Sky (Chieko sho)
(link to Japanese text: "Chieko sho") <td>Modern (Taisho, early Showa; 1912-1930s) <tr> <td><img src=./images/ikemiyagi.jpg width=90%> <td>02/02/07 <td>Ikemiyagi Seikhoo (1893-1951) <td>"Officer Ukuma" (link to Japanese text: "Ukuma nu junsa") <td>Modern (Taisho: 1922) <tr> <td><img src=./images/yamanoha.jpg width=55%> <td>01/19/07 <td>Yamanoha Nobuko <td>"Will 'o' the Wisp" ("Onibi") <td>Modern (Showa: 1985) <tr> <td><img src=./images/sakutaro.jpg width=75%> <td>01/12/07 <td>Hagiwara SAKUTARO <td><i>Howling at the Moon
(Tsuki ni hoeru)
<td>Modern (Taisho: 1917) <tr> <td colspan=5>
RELAUNCH 2007 <tr> <td><img src=./images/makioka.jpg> <td>12/09/05 <td>TANIZAKI Jun'ichiro <td><i>The Makioka Sisters
(Sasameyuki)
<td>Modern (Showa: 1932-9) <tr> <td><img src=./images/momotaro.jpg width=50%> <td>11/04/05 <td>SHIMADA Masahiko <td>"Momotaro in a Capsule"
(Kapuseru no naka no momotaro)
<td>Modern (Heisei: 1992) <tr> <td><img src=./images/yokomitsu.jpg> <td>11/19/05 <td>YOKOMITSU Riichi <td><i>Shanghai
(Shanhai)
<td>Modern (Showa: 1929) <tr> <td><img src=./images/jigokuhen.jpg width=75%> <td>10/28/05 <td>AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke <td>"Hell Screen"
(Jigoku-hen)
<td>Modern (Taisho: 1918) <tr> <td><img src=./images/hearn.gif width=33%> <td>10/21/05 <td>Lafcadio HEARN
Koizumi Yakumo <td><i>Kwaidan
<td>Modern (Meiji: 1905) <tr> <td><img src=./images/ugetsu.gif> <td>10/21/05 <td>Ueda AKINARI <td><i>Ugetsu monogatari
<td>Edo (1776) <tr> <td><img src=./images/atsushi.jpg> <td>010/07/05 <td>Nakajima Atsushi (Ton) <td>"Tiger-Poet"
(Sangetsuki) <td>Modern (?: ?) <tr> <td><img src=./images/kawabata.jpe width=25%> <td>09/30/05 <td>KAWABATA Yasunari <td><i>Thousand Cranes
(Senbazuru)
<td>Modern (Showa: 1949-51) <tr> <td><img src=./images/haruo.jpg> <td>09/21/05 <td>SATO Haruo <td><i>The Sick Rose: A Pastoral Elegy
(Den'en no yuutsu)
<td>Modern (Taisho: 1918) <tr> <td><img src=./images/akiko.midaregami.jpg> <td>09/16/05 <td>Yosano AKIKO <td><i>Tangled Hair
(Midaregami)</i> <td>Modern (Meiji: 1901) <tr> <td><img src=./images/Nagai_Kafu.jpg> <td>09/09/05 <td>Nagai KAFU <td>"The River Sumida"
(Sumidagawa) <td>Modern (Meiji: 1909) <tr> <td><img src=./images/saisei.jpg> <td>09/02/05 <td>Muro SAISEI <td>"Childhood"
(Yonen jidai) <td>Modern (Taisho: 1919) <tr> <td><img src=./images/takekurabe.gif width=75%> <td>08/26/05 <td>Higuchi ICHIYO <td>"Growing Up"
(Takekurabe) <td>Modern (Meiji: 1896) <tr> <td><img src=./images/kenji.jpg width=80%> <td>08/19/05 <td>Miyazawa KENJI <td>"Night of the Milky Way Railway"
(Ginga tetsudo no yoru) <td>Modern (Showa: early 1930s) <tr> <td><img src=./images/abe.jpg> <td>08/12/05 <td>ABE Kobo <td>Woman in the Dunes
(Suna no onna)
<td>Modern (Showa: 1962) <tr> <td><img src=./images/ango.jpg> <td>07/29/05 <td>Sakaguchi ANGO <td>"The Idiot"(Hakuchi)
and
"In the Forest, under the Cherries" (Sakura no mori no mankai no shita) <td>Modern (Showa: 1946; 1947) <tr> <td><img src=./images/dazai.jpg> <td>07/22/05 <td>DAZAI Osamu <td>No Longer Human
(Ningen shikkaku)
<td>Modern (Showa: 1948) </table> <p>Questions about our reading list? Want to join our weekly meetings? Send an email to me, <a href=mailto:jholt@u.washington.edu>Jon Holt</a>. <p>Return to jholt's UW <a href=../index.html>main page.</a> </html>