Shirobamba: A Childhood in Old Japan [1962].
Translated by Jean Oda Moy.
New York: Weatherhill, 1993.
(This English translation was previously published: London: Peter Owen Publishers, 1991.)
Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Internet Archive Open Library.
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Wikipedia Articles :
- Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991).
- 井上靖 (1907–1991).
(As usual, the Japanese Wikipedia page for a Japanese author is far more detailed than the one on English Wikipedia.) - しろばんば [Shirobamba] (serialized 1960-1962).
- Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards).
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Yasushi Inoue Books in English, Internet Archive.
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Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters provides a glimpse of Japanese life in mid-1930s Osaka and its suburbs. In an analogous manner Inoue's Shirobamba provides a glimpse of Japanese life in a rural village on the Izu Peninsula at the beginning of the 20th century.
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