Synopses & Reviews
Perhaps the most admired childhood memoir ever written in Japan, The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into adolescence. Innocence fades as he slowly becomes aware of himself and others, while scene after scene richly evokes the tastes, lifestyles, landscapes, objects, and manners of a lost Japan.
Kansuke Naka (1885and#8211;1965) was a Japanese poet, essayist, and novelist who was a student of Natsume Soseki.
Hiroaki Sato lives in New York City and is a prize-winning writer and translator with over forty works of classical and modern Japanese poetry, prose, and fiction published in English.
Synopsis
Japan's most beloved memoir, from the early 20th century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood" (Howard Hibbett).
About the Author
Kansuke Naka (1885-1965) was a Japanese writer known primarily for his memoir of childhood,
Gin no Saji (The Silver Spoon). He was a student of Japan's great novelist Natsume Soseki, who helped encourage and arrange its publication.
Hiroaki Sato is a prize-winning writer and translator with over 40 works of classical and modern Japanese poetry, prose, and fiction published in English. His reviews and articles have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times Book Review, AsiaWeek, Mainichi Daily News, St. Andrews Review, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, The Journal of American and Canadian Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Japan Times, The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Modern Haiku, Japan Focus, and others.
He has received the P.E.N. American Center Translation Prize and the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Japanese Literary Translation Prize.