Howard Hibbett
Translator and professor emeritus of Japanese literature
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Howard Hibbett was a translator and professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University. He held the Victor S. Thomas Professorship in Japanese Literature. Early life Hibbett was born in Akron, Ohio, on July 27, 1920. He began his studies of Japanese language and literature as a sophomore at Harvard College in 1942 before working as a language specialist for the U.S. Army in 1942-46. After graduating from Harvard College in 1947, he went on to receive his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1950. He taught at UCLA before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1958. He was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1985 through 1988.
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- The Japanese Comic Linked-Verse Tradition (1960) (82)
- Ejima Kiseki (1667-1736) and His Katagi-mono (1951) (79)
- The Role of the Ukiyo-Zoshi Illustrator (1957) (79)
- The Floating World In Japanese Fiction (1960) (30)
- Rashomon, and other stories (1952) (11)
- The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns . By Howard Hibbett. Tokyo and London: Kodansha International, 2002. 208 pp. $28.00 (cloth). (2003) (9)
- The Hokusai Sketchbooks: Selections from the Manga (1959) (6)
- Contemporary Japanese literature: An anthology of fiction, film, and other writing since 1945 (1977) (6)
- Seven Japanese Tales (1963) (6)
- Saikaku and Burlesque Fiction (1957) (4)
- Saikaku as a Realist (1952) (4)
- Modern Japanese: A Basic Reader (1965) (4)
- A Tokyo anthology : literature from Japan's modern metropolis, 1850-1920 (2017) (3)
- Drama and desire : Japanese paintings from the floating world, 1690-1850 (2007) (2)
- The Portrait of the Artist in Japanese Fiction (1955) (2)
- Modern Japanese Stories. An Anthology.@@@Seven Japanese Tales.@@@Ukiyo: Stories of "The Floating World" of Postwar Japan. (1964) (1)
- MODERN JAPANESE, A BASIC READER. VOLUME II, JAPANESE TEXTS. (1965) (1)
- HARD-TO-FIND CHARACTERS (1967) (0)
- Nihon Bungei to Sekai Bungei (Japanese Literature and World Literature) (1953) (0)
- KANJI LISTS Lesson 37 – Lesson 60 (1967) (0)
- A Tokyo Anthology (2017) (0)
- The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of Shoguns (Book Review) (2003) (0)
- Recent Publications on Natsume Sōseki (1973) (0)
- MODERN JAPANESE, A BASIC READER. VOLUME I, VOCABULARIES AND NOTES. (1965) (0)
- CHAPTER VIII. Natsume Sōseki and the Psychological Novel (2015) (0)
- KANJI LISTS Lesson 1 – Lesson 36 (1967) (0)
- The Limits of Literalism (1964) (0)
- Hikaku Bungaku Josetsu (1953) (0)
- Love and Death (1959) (0)
- Beauty and sadness (1979) (0)
- The Poetry of Living Japan (2011) (0)
- The key ; and, Diary of a mad old man (2004) (0)
- A Kamigata Anthology (2020) (0)
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