Ivan Morris
English writer and Japanese scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ivan Ira Esme Morris was an English writer, translator and editor in the field of Japanese studies. Biography Ivan Morris was born in London, of mixed American and Swedish parentage to Edita Morris and Ira Victor Morris . He studied at Gordonstoun, before graduating from Phillips Academy. He graduated with magna cum laude at Harvard University and received a doctorate at the SOAS University of London, specializing in Oriental languages. As an intelligence officer for the U.S. Navy, Morris was one of the first interpreters sent into Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Ivan Morris's Published Works
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- The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan (1973) (92)
- Thought and behaviour in modern Japanese politics (1964) (65)
- The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (1965) (61)
- The Road to War (1967) (39)
- The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings (1963) (33)
- The world of the shining prince (1964) (29)
- The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (1979) (29)
- Nationalism and the right wing in Japan (1960) (22)
- The Life of an Amorous Man (1964) (20)
- Nationalism and the Right Wing in Japan. A Study of Post-War Trends (1962) (14)
- The Chinese Civil Service; Career Open to Talent?@@@Wang An-shih; Practical Reformer.@@@Japan 1931-1945; Militarism, Fascism, Japanism.@@@1857 in India; Mutiny or War of Independence.@@@The British in India; Imperialism or Trusteeship. (1964) (13)
- Nationalism and the right wing in Japan : a study of post-war trends (1961) (12)
- Control of Japanese Foreign Policy: A Study of Civil-Military Rivalry 1930-1945. (1958) (11)
- Modern Japanese stories : an anthology (1962) (10)
- Madly singing in the mountains : an appreciation and anthology of Arthur Waley (1971) (10)
- As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams. (1972) (8)
- Fires on the plain (1971) (7)
- The Tale of Genji scroll (1971) (7)
- The Changing Social Position of Women in Japan (1962) (5)
- Foreign Policy Issues in Japan's 1958 Elections (1958) (5)
- Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War (1961) (5)
- Japanese and Americans: A Century of Cultural Relations (1956) (5)
- Japan 1931-1945--Militarism, Fascism, Japanism? (1963) (5)
- Modern Japanese Stories (1961) (4)
- Dictionary of Selected Forms in Classical Japanese Literature. (1965) (4)
- Japan Between East and West. (1958) (4)
- Japanese Foreign Policy and Neutralism (1960) (3)
- Five studies in Japanese politics (1958) (3)
- The Double Patriots: A Study of Japanese Nationalism (1958) (3)
- Madly Singing in the Mountains. An Anthology of Arthur Waley. (1971) (2)
- Significance of the Military in Post-War Japan (1958) (2)
- Policeman and Student in Japanese Politics (1959) (1)
- Modern Japanese Stories. An Anthology.@@@Seven Japanese Tales.@@@Ukiyo: Stories of "The Floating World" of Postwar Japan. (1964) (1)
- The pillow book of Sei Shōnagon : a companion volume (1967) (1)
- Comprehensive index : a classified list, followed by author and subject indexes, of papers appearing in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1872-1957 (1958) (1)
- The Literature of Japanese Education 1945–54 (1956) (0)
- Japanese People and Politics (1958) (0)
- Dazai Osamu . By James A. O'Brien. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1975. 179 pp. Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index. $8.50 (1976) (0)
- The new Japan (1958) (0)
- Japan's American Interlude (1961) (0)
- The Chicago story : a novel (1952) (0)
- The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court . By E. A. Cranston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. x + 191 pp. Notes to Introduction, Notes to Translation, Bibliography, Index of First Lines, General Index. $12.50. (1970) (0)
- Japanese Society and Politics: The Impact of Social Stratification and Mobility on Politics (1957) (0)
- The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Volumes One and Two. (1968) (0)
- City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward (1960) (0)
- "The Captain First Secretary, Tadanobu" (1966) (0)
- The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon@@@The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (1973) (0)
- The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan: Comprehensive Index. (1959) (0)
- The Cause of Japan (1957) (0)
- Dictionary of Selected Forms in Classical Japanese Literature (1967) (0)
- John Whitney Hall. Government and Local Power in Japan: A Study Based on Bizen Province, 500 to 1700. Pp. x, 446. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966. $12.50 (1966) (0)
- The style of Murasaki Shikibu, with particular reference to literary influences (1951) (0)
- Japan and Communist China (1960) (0)
- Meeting with Japan (1960) (0)
- A Bridge of Dreams@@@As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan. (1972) (0)
- Notes on Literary Translation from Japanese into English (1964) (0)
- Modern Japanese short stories (1961) (0)
- A Translator's Rewards (1970) (0)
- Japan in 1960 (1961) (0)
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