BfS: Donald Keene. Dawn to the West—Poetry, Drama, Criticism

Full title:
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era—Poetry, Drama, Criticism. (Note that there is another volume with the same title, only differing at the end, where “Fiction” replaces “Poetry, Drama, Criticism”; that other volume is over 1300 pages long, and is not for sale here.)
New York: Henry Holt, 1984. Paperback, 6×9.25″ (15.5×23.5 [...]

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Dalby, Liza. East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Thanks to Michael Dylan Welch for recommending this book.
The title represents the first of the 72 classical 5-day “seasons” of the solar side of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This lunisolar calendar became the basis of the seasonal understanding of the Japanese early on, and is embedded deep in haikai [...]

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