02967nam 2200589Ia 450 991081683950332120200520144314.01-4529-4815-10-8166-8281-X(CKB)2670000000359244(EBL)1204676(SSID)ssj0000889948(PQKBManifestationID)11493955(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000889948(PQKBWorkID)10882811(PQKB)11118758(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177491(MiAaPQ)EBC1204676(OCoLC)846495509(MdBmJHUP)muse29984(Au-PeEL)EBL1204676(CaPaEBR)ebr10716980(CaONFJC)MIL522782(EXLCZ)99267000000035924420120608d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTwelve views from the distance /Mutsuo Takahashi ; translated by Jeffrey Angles1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20121 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7277-6 Includes bibliographical references.TWELVE VIEWS FROM THE DISTANCE -- Contents -- Note about Japanese Names -- Chart of family Members -- Translator's Introduction -- PART I: TWELVE VIEWS FROM THE DISTANCE -- Chapter 1: The Snow of Memory -- Chapter 2: Grandma's House -- Chapter 3: Tales of Long ago -- Chapter 4: Spirited Away -- Chapter 5: On Mother's Back -- Chapter 6: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 7: The Various Types of Sea -- Chapter8: Princes and Paupers -- Chapter 9: The Shore of Sexuality -- Chapter 10: Skies of Blood -- Chapter 11: Imagining Father -- Communities outside the World -- Afterword to the English Translation -- Glossary -- English Translations of Takahashi's Writing -- Translator's Acknowledgments.From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy's childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II. Originally published in 1970, this translation is the first available in English.In twelve chapters that visit and revisit critical points in his boyhood, Twelve Views from the Distance presents a vanished time and place through the eyes of an accomplished poet. Recounting memories from his youth, Mutsuo Takahashi captures the full range of his internal life as a boy, shifting between hiPoets, Japanese20th centuryBiographyPoets, Japanese895.6/15BTakahashi Mutsuo1937-1716508Angles Jeffrey1971-1655384MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816839503321Twelve views from the distance4111873UNINA