Donald Keene

Born

in New York City, NY, The United States

June 18, 1922

Died

February 24, 2019

Website

http://www.donaldkeenecenter.org/

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Donald Keene was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 24,113 ratings · 1,793 reviews · 82 distinct works • Similar authors

	Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Donald Keene (Editor), Ki no Tsurayuki (Contributor) , Matsuo Bashō (Contributor) 4.01 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 1955 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day by Donald Keene (Editor), Kanagaki Robun (Contributor) , Masao Kume (Contributor) 4.01 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1955 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan 4.16 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 3.99 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pleasures of Japanese Literature 3.87 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (A History of Japanese Literature - Volume 1) 4.48 avg rating — 50 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era; Fiction 4.32 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan 3.78 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Premodern Era - 1600-1867 (A History of Japanese Literature - Volume 2) 4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers 3.98 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture (12 books)
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“He considered China’s interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a “battle for the sake of world culture.”49”
― Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912

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