In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

), Ukiyo-e Studies and Pleasures, A Collection of Essays on the Art of Japanese Prints, The Hague, Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, 1978.

* The Pleasures of Japanese Literature ( Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1988 ; ISBN 0-231-06736-4 )

The group released a cover EP titled Guilty Pleasures only in Japan in late 2006, which was supported by a simultaneous Japanese tour.

Diabelli's composition Pleasures of Youth: Six Sonatinas is a collection of six sonatinas depicting a struggle between unknown opposing forces.

Sexual Salvation: Affirming Women's Sexual Rights and Pleasures, Praeger Publishers.

* The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Marriage (“ Conjugial ”) Love, After Which follows the Pleasures of Insanity Concerning Scortatory Love.

The 2005 documentary film Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea ( narrated by John Waters ) features Bono and documented the lives of the inhabitants of Bombay Beach, Niland, and Salton City, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea.

The fantasy novel The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle was written after the author attended a few early SCA events circa 1968 ; but he has repeatedly stated that he then studiously avoided any contact with the actual SCA itself for almost two decades, so that his description of a fictitious " League for Archaic Pleasures " would not be " contaminated " by contact with the actual real-life organization.

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, states, " The horror genre must keep terror and comedy in tension if it is to successfully tread the thin line that separates it from terrorism and parody ... this delicate balance is struck in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which the decaying corpse of Grandpa not only incorporates horrific and humorous effects, but actually uses one to exacerbate the other.

Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing.

In 2002 another version of O was released, called The Story of O: Untold Pleasures, with Danielle Ciardi playing the title character.

* Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews describes 61 different scenes, each told in a different style ( generally poetic, elaborate, or circumlocutory ) in which 61 different people ( all of different ages, nationalities, and walks of life ) masturbate.

Comic books and graphic novels which feature vampires include Vampirella ( Warren Publishing, 1969 ), Morbius, the Living Vampire ( Marvel, 1971 ), Tomb of Dracula ( Marvel Comics, 1972 ), Blade ( Marvel, 1973 ), I ... Vampire ( DC Comics, 1981 ), Hellsing ( Shonen Gahosha, 1997 ), 30 Days of Night ( IDW Publishing, 2002 ), Chibi Vampire ( Monthly Dragon Age, 2003 ), Rosario + Vampire ( Monthly Shōnen Jump 2004 ), Vampire Knight ( LaLa, 2005 ), Blood Alone ( MediaWorks, 2005 ), Dracula vs. King Arthur ( Silent Devil Productions, 2005 ), Dance in the Vampire Bund ( Media Factory, 2006 ), Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Half Dead ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse Comics, 2007 ), Nosferatu ( Viper Comics, 2010 ), and Twilight: The Graphic Novel ( 2010 ).

A panegyric on the happiness and " Pleasures of the Married State ", published in London ca.

His performances included at least one homosexual feature film, The Private Pleasures of John C. Holmes in 1983, and a handful of gay loops.

All of the male stars of Private Pleasures, including Holmes, eventually succumbed to AIDS.

* The Private Pleasures of John C. Holmes ( 1983 )

He broke new ground with Los Placeres Prohibidos (" Forbidden Pleasures "), an avant-garde work in which the poet used surrealism to explore his sexuality.

* Gombrich, E. H. " Pleasures of Boredom: Four Centuries of Doodles.

* The 2006 documentary film Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea ( narrated by John Waters ) documented the lives of the inhabitants of Bombay Beach, Niland, and Salton City, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea.

* The 2006 documentary film Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea ( narrated by John Waters ) documented the lives of the inhabitants of Niland, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea-www. saltonseadoc. com.

* Keene, Donald, compiled and edited, Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Grove Press, 1955

* Keene, Donald, Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era-Poetry, Drama, Criticism ( A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 4 ), Columbia University Press, 1999

A History of Japanese Literature.

Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest times to the Late Sixteenth Century.

Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600.

Japanese Literature can be divided into four main periods: ancient, classical, medieval and modern.

** Modern Japanese Literature, Grove Press, 1956.

** World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of The Pre-Modern Era 1600 – 1867, Columbia University Press © 1976 reprinted 1999 ISBN 0-231-11467-2

** Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era, Poetry, Drama, Criticism, Columbia University Press © 1984 reprinted 1998 ISBN 0-231-11435-4

** Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from the Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century, Columbia University Press © 1993 reprinted 1999 ISBN 0-231-11441-9

* National Institute of Japanese Literature ( 国文学研究資料館 ) and its service for searching the text of Iwanami Shoten ’ s 100-volume Nihon koten bungaku taikei ( 日本古典文學大系 ) anthology of classical Japanese texts

* Japanese Literature Publishing Project, the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan

* Bibliography for Research in Japanese Literature, Haruo Shirane, Columbia University

* The Japanese Literature Home Page, Mark Jewel, Waseda University

* Japanese Literature Resources Page, Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, Creighton University

Japanese Literature and Politics in the 1930s.

Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century.

Finally, as time began to run out, he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies.

Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.

It sounded as if the man were calling him: `` Hey, Japanese hey there, Japanese ''.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.

`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.

and after that the Japanese cherries.

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

In 1896 a Japanese tsunami killed 27,000 people and swept away 10,000 homes.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

American chemists, seeking to increase exports of soybeans, have adapted modern techniques and fermentation methods to improve their use in such traditional Japanese foods as tofu and miso and in tempeh of Indonesia.

The Japanese sake is wine fermented from rice grain.

I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.

Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

On arriving in Tokyo later we were met by Masu who took us immediately to her university, the Japanese Women's University.

It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

At this Women's University we find a monument to a courageous family who believed that Japanese women also should be educated.

Even today there are some doubts about the value of education for Japanese women, but this University continues to grow and to send its students out into the community.

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.