The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan

Japan's most beloved memoir, from the early 20th century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood" (Howard Hibbett).

Author: Kansuke Naka
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 10/27/2015
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781611720198
ISBN10: 1611720192
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Criticism | Asian | Japanese

About the Author

Kansuke Naka (1885-1965) was a Japanese poet, essayist, and novelist. He was a student of the great novelist Soseki Natsume, who lavishly praised the "freshness and dignity" of Naka's prose and encouraged the first publication of The Silver Spoon.

Hiroaki Sato is a writer, reviewer, and translator with over forty works of classical and modern Japanese poetry, prose, and fiction published in English. He has received the PEN American Center Translation Prize and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. He lives in New York City and writes a monthly column on politics and society for the Japan Times.