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1st Edition

Percival Lowell: Collected Writings on Japan and Asia

Edited By David Strauss Copyright 2007

1650 Pages

by Edition Synapse

Description

This new set from Edition Synapse represents a complete collection of Percival Lowell’s writings on Asia (primarily on Japan and Korea) including fourteen journal and newspaper articles and transcribed letters to his sister and a leading imagist poet of the time Amy Lowell and Lafcadio Hearn. Travelling widely in Japan and Korea in the 1880s and 1890s, he published the works collected here... Read more

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Volume 1: Journal & Newspaper Articles + Letters (c.320pp)

Introduction by David Strauss

Korean Architecture, Proc. Soc. of Arts Meeting, MIT Meeting 329, March 1885, 7pp

The New Palace at Soul, Science, Vol.V. #112, March 27 1885, 3pp

The Hong Sal Mun, or the Red Arrow Gate, Science, Vol. V. #121, May 20 1885, 3pp

A Korean Coup-d'etat, Atlantic Monthly, Vol.58 #34, Nov. 1886, 20pp

A Visit to Shirane San, Applachia, V. #2, June 1888, 29pp

Fuji: the Sacred Mountain, Poem, Scribner's Magazine, IV #3, Sept. 1888, 1p

The Danger of Imitation, The Japan Weekly Mail, March 23-May 11, 1889, 7pp

Sakura no saku, Boston Post, June 28 1889, 2pp

The Fate of a Japanese Reformer, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 66 #397, Nov. 1890, 14pp

A Comparison of the Japanese and Burmese Language, TASJ, XIX, June 23 1891, 15pp

Esoteric Shinto, TASJ, XXI-XXII, Feb-Oct. 1893, 132pp

Ontake, Liber Scriptorum, 1893, 11pp

Korea, The Churchman, XXIX #6, Feb. 6 1904, 5pp

Introduction to Angus Hamilton et al., 'Korea: Its History, Its People and Its Commerce', Oriental Series, Vol. XII, 1910, 6pp

35 Letters from Percival to Amy Lowell 1883-1914, 40pp

Transcribed by Naoki Onishi (International Christian Univ.)

By permission of The Houghton Library, Harvard University

3 Letters from Percival Lowell to Lafcardio Hern, 1893, 6pp

By permission of Ikeda Foundation, Niigata

Volume 2

Choson: The Land of the Morning Calm

Boston, Ticknor & Co., 1886, 422pp

Volume 3

The Soul of the Far East

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1888, 234pp

Volume 4

Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1891, 268pp

Volume 5

Occult Japan or the Way of the Gods

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1895, 386pp

Editor(s)

Biography

Edited and introduced by David Strauss, Professor Emeritus, Kalamazoo College

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