Acknowledgements p. 9
I. Some Japanese Landscapes p. 11
Japanese Aesthetics p. 11
Feminine Sensibility in the Heian Era p. 26
Individuality and Pattern in Japanese Literature p. 40
Realism and Unreality in Japanese Drama p. 52
II. The World of Haikai Poetry p. 71
Matsunaga Teitoku and the Beginning of Haikai Poetry p. 71
Basho''s Journey of 1684 p. 94
Basho''s Journey to Sarashina p. 109
III. The Creation of Modern Japanese Poetry p. 131
Modern Japanese Poetry p. 131
Shiki and Takuboku p. 157
IV. Three Modern Novelists p. 171
Tanizaki Junichiro p. 171
Dazai Osamu p. 186
Mishima Yukio p. 204
V. Some Japanese Eccentrics p. 226
The Portrait of Ikkyu p. 226
Fujimoto Kizan and The Great Mirror of Love p. 242
Hanako p. 250
VI. The Japanese and the Landscapes of War p. 259
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and Japanese Culture p. 259
Japanese Writers and the Greater East Asia War p. 300
VII. The Translation of Japanese Culture p. 322
On Translation p. 322
Arthur Waley p. 330
Confessions of a Specialist p. 338
A Short Reading List p. 342
