Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People

by Donald Richie

Overview

"Nobody has thought as widely and as concretely (therefore, as helpfully) as Richie has about how a single distinctive culture gathers up contradictions, coheres, works, resists change, and changes.--Susan Sontag"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462902170
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	12/20/2011
Series:	Tuttle Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Donald Richie is perhaps best known as the leading Western authority on the Japanese film and has lived in Japan since 1947. Author of the definitive works on Kurosawa and Ozu, his most recent is A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. He also writes on other aspects of Japan and is the author of thirty books and dozens of essays. Richie is especially well-known for his travel memoir The Inland Sea which has been adapted into a popular PBS documentary. His best-known collection is The Donald Richie Reader, which contains 50 years of his writings on Japan.

Editorial Reviews

"Richie's Japan lies far beneath the surface of the headlines. His portraits are unforgettable."—Tom Wolfe

"More revealing than many a thick sociological study."—Paul McCarthy

"Nobody has thought as widely and as concretely (therefore, as helpfully) as Richie has about how a single distinctive culture gathers up contradictions, coheres, works, resists change, and changes."—Susan Sontag

"If I were asked what book to put in the hands of those who want to understand Japan, this would be it."—Anthony Thwaite

"Richie has found his home in Japan—he has turned his home into art."—Ian Buruma

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