Donald Keene
Donald Lawrence Keene was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer, and translator of Japanese literature. He was Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo which is essentially his birth name in the Japanese name order. This was also his poetic pen name and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.
Books
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
1955
ISBN 9780802141163
Death in Midsummer
1953
ISBN 9780241678947
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
ISBN 9788831767941
Emperor of Japan
2002
ISBN 9780231123419
No Longer Human
1948
ISBN 9782070720880
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
1953
ISBN 9780811201179
Buenos Aires Poetry n°1 (Nueva Época) | Volumen 1
2024
ISBN 9789878470887
The Poetry of our world
2000
ISBN 9780060553692
Five Modern No Plays
1950
ISBN 9780804813808
Modern Japanese literature
1956
ISBN 9780394172545
Essays in Idleness
1967
ISBN 9780231083089
Dawn to the West
1983
ISBN 9780805006070
Seeds in the Heart
1993
ISBN 9780805043648
On familiar terms
1994
ISBN 9781568360065
Chūshingura
1748
ISBN 9780231035316
Bunraku
1965
ISBN 9780870111938
The Japanese discovery of Europe, 1720-1830
1969
ISBN 9780804706698
World within walls
1976
ISBN 9780802142207
Some Japanese Portraits
1978
ISBN 9780870115752
The Paper Door and Other Stories by Shiga Naoya
1987
ISBN 9780231121576
The pleasures of Japanese literature
1988
ISBN 9780231067379
Travelers of a hundred ages
1989
ISBN 9785020166530
Modern Japanese diaries
1995
ISBN 9780805046656
Masterful Illusions
2002
ISBN 9780295982700