The Tale of Princess Kaguya－Japan's Oldest Fairy Tale in Japanese and English [単行本]

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• 内容紹介

  One of the great works of early literature－a fantastical tale of beauty, intrigue, lust and salvation.
  
  The Tale of Princess Kaguya is Japan's oldest surviving prose narrative and one of its most famous literary works. Familiar to every Japanese child, the story, also called The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, tells of a tiny otherworldly girl found inside a bamboo stalk, whose beauty captivates emperors and commoners alike.
  
  Blending folklore, romance and mythology, the tale explores timeless themes of greed, lust and loss. Beneath its surface lies a strikingly modern current of female empowerment, as its heroine quietly resists the desires and demands of a world that seeks to possess her.
  
  This definitive edition presents the original text alongside an engaging English translation by Matthew Stavros that highlights the poetry and biting wit of the tale. Insightful commentary, illustrations and superb scholarship make this a book that will appeal to every lover of Japanese language, culture and literature.
  
  『竹取物語』（バイリンガル版）
  ◎日本最古の物語『竹取物語』
  ◎人間の本質を突く超先駆的なファンタジー
  ◎日英対訳でお楽しみいただけます

• 著者について

  Matthew Stavros (マシュー スタブロス)
  Matthew Stavros is an historian of early Japan at the University of Sydney and a translator of Classical Japanese literature. His research focuses on the material culture of premodern Japan and eastern Asia, with particular interest in cities, buildings and religious monuments. He trained in architectural and urban history at Kyoto University and read history at Princeton University where he earned a PhD.
  
  Reginald Jackson (レジナルド ジャクソン)
  Reginald Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar of Japanese arts traditions. He has held faculty positions at Yale University, University of Chicago, and served as the Mary Griggs Burke Endowed Chair of Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota before retiring from the University of Michigan as professor of pre-modern Japanese literature and performance. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is the author of "Textures of Mourning" and "A Proximate Remove".

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