Donald Keene: A Life in Japanese Literature

The cover pages of the Anthology of Japanese Literature and Modern Japanese Literature.

Donald Keene with the author Kawaji Yuka in his Tokyo home on November 18, 2013. (Courtesy Kawaji Yuka)

Donald Keene, aged 16, around the time that he entered Columbia University in 1938. (Courtesy Donald Keene Center Kashiwazaki)

Donald Keene (standing at center) pictured with Japanese-American subordinates during the time he was assigned in Okinawa as a translator and interpreter from April to July 1945. (Courtesy Donald Keene Center Kashiwazaki)

Donald Keene performs as the servant Tarōkaja in a kyōgen performance in Tokyo on September 13, 1956. (© Watabe Yūkichi; courtesy Donald Keene Center Kashiwazaki)

Donald Keene with Mishima Yukio at the Fukudaya restaurant in Toranomon, Tokyo, on June 18, 1964. (© Chūō Kōron Shinsha)

Keene shows reporters his official Japanese name in kanji in Tokyo on March 8, 2012, after taking Japanese citizenship. In the background is his adopted son Seiki. (© Jiji)

Keene and Seiki at a jōruri puppet theater rehearsal at the Donald Keene Center Kashiwazaki in May 2017. (© Miyazawa Masaaki)