Re: Taiko, Musashi and Heike.

jim_breen_at_idontreadhotmail.com
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:50:34 GMT

necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> dixit:

>$B%N%k%&%'!<$N?9(B. Available in English translation as well.

What is his (Japanese) style like? I have only read him in translation.

>In any event, it sounds like this person (who claims to know very few kanji)
>is looking for recommendations for English translations of Japanese books,
>not books in Japanese.

In that case Botchan would be fine.

Speaking of Heike, the first printed edition of it was done by the
Jesuits in 1592. It was in Portuguese-style romaji (Feiqe no monogatari).
Jed will be pleased to know that.

(I'm doing a paper at a $B%-%j%7%?%sHG(B seminar in Tokyo next month.) 

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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