Letters to Donald Keene from Japanese literary figures, 1952-2004

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Series I: Abe Kōbō 安部公房



Box MB7 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1960s/書簡, 1960年代 (1 of 2), 1967/1968, 9 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB7 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1960s/書簡, 1960年代 (2 of 2), 1969, 9 items

Letters, envelopes, articles


Box MB7 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1970s/書簡, 1970年代, 1970/1978, 15 items

Letters, envelopes, aerograms


Box MB7 Folder 4 Correspondence, 1980s/書簡, 1980年代, 1981/1989, 6 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB7 Folder 5 Correspondence and miscellaneous, 1990s/書簡、その他, 1990年代, 1991, undated


Box MB7 Folder 6 Three-dimensional birthday card/誕生日カード(立体), undated

Copy. Original is removed to the Abe Kōbō Collection, Box 17, Folder 592.

Series II: Kawabata Yasunari 川端康成


Box MB7 Folder 7 Correspondence/書簡, 1954/1964, undated, 45 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, articles, receipt, namecards

Series III: Mishima Yukio 三島由紀夫


Box MB7 Folder 8 Correspondence/書簡, 1954, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB7 Folder 9 Correspondence/書簡, 1956, 5 items

Letter, envelope, greeting card, aerograms


Box MB7 Folder 10 Correspondence/書簡, 1957, 10 items

Letters, envelopes, aerograms


Box MB7 Folder 11 Correspondence/書簡, 1958, 15 items

Letters, envelopes, articles


Box MB7 Folder 12 Correspondence/書簡, 1959, 13 items

Letters, envelopes, postcard, aerogram


Box MB7 Folder 13 Correspondence/書簡, 1960, 10 items

Letters, envelopes, aerogram, fragment


Box MB7 Folder 14 Correspondence/書簡, 1961, 10 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, aerogram


Box MB7 Folder 15 Correspondence/書簡, 1962, 13 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB7 Folder 16 Correspondence/書簡, 1963, 13 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB7 Folder 17 Correspondence/書簡, 1964, 9 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB7 Folder 18 Correspondence/書簡, 1965, 13 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB7 Folder 19 Correspondence/書簡, 1966, 16 items

Letters, envelopes, telegram


Box MB7 Folder 20 Correspondence/書簡, 1967, 3 items

Letter, envelope, telegram


Box MB7 Folder 21 Correspondence/書簡, 1968, 10 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB7 Folder 22 Correspondence/書簡, 1969, 6 items

Letters, envelopes, articles


Box MB7 Folder 23 Correspondence/書簡, 1970, 10 items

Letters, envelopes, articles


Box MB7 Folder 24 Photographs/写真, undated, 5 items

Black and white photographic prints


Box MB7 Folder 25 "Bunka bōeiron" and coup attempt reports/「文化防衛論」、自衛隊乱入記事, 1968/1970, 9 items

Journal written by Mishima Yukio. Bound journal and articles


Box MB7 Folder 26 Death reports/死亡記事, 1970, 10 items

Envelope, articles


Box MB7 Folder 27 Busu, script/脚本『附子』, undated, 1 items


Box MB7 Folder 28 Long After Love, script/脚本『Long After Love』, undated, 1 items


Box MB7 Folder 29 Madame de Sade, promotional material/広告『Madame de Sade』, 1999, 1 items


Box MB7 Folder 30 Utsukushii hoshi, review/『美しい星』書評, 1962, 12 items

Envelope, articles


Box MB7 Folder 31 Miscellaneous/その他, 1970, undated, 21 items

Articles, namecards, note, postcards, greeting cards, trip schedule, Maxim's Paris menu, note; Dinner was in honor of Mishima Yukio.

Series IV: Ōe Kenzaburō 大江健三郎


Box MB7 Folder 32 Correspondence/書簡 (1 of 2), 1955/1979, undated, 43 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, aerograms articles, picture, cartoon


Box MB7 Folder 33 Correspondence/書簡 (2 of 2), Representative of Tragedy/『悲劇の表現者』, 1966/1971, ca.1980, 12 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, bound holograph manuscript, receipt of sale

Series V: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō 谷崎潤一郎


Box MB7 Folder 34 Correspondence/書簡, 1954/1964, undated, 14 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, greeting cards, photographs

Series VI: General Correspondents

Correspondences/書簡



Box MB8 Folder 35 Abe Machi 安部真知, 1984, undated, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 36 Abe Tomoji 阿部知二, 1964, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 37 Akao Tōshi 赤尾兜子, 1975, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 38 Akutagawa Hiroshi 芥川比呂志, 1980, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB8 Folder 39 Andō Tadao 安藤忠雄, undated, 2 items

Postcards


Box MB8 Folder 40 Anzai Hitoshi 安西均, undated, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 41 Aono Sō 青野總, 1979/1980, undated, 4 items

Letters, envelope, postcard


Box MB8 Folder 42 Ara Masahito 荒正人, 1974, 3 items

Postcard, letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 43 Ariyoshi Sawako 有吉佐和子, 1973/1974, undated, 12 items

Letters, scrolled letters, envelopes, holograph map


Box MB8 Folder 44 Endō Shūsaku 遠藤周作, 1979, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 45 Etō Jun 江藤淳, 1965, 4 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB8 Folder 46 Fukazawa Shichirō 深沢七郎, 1972, 7 items

Letters, envelopes, agreement


Box MB8 Folder 47 Fukuda Tsuneari 福田恒存, 1952/1968, undated, 34 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, aerograms, greeting card, article


Box MB8 Folder 48 Fukunaga Takehiko 福永武彦, undated, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 49 Gotō Meisei 後藤明生, 1975/1999, undated, 31 items

Letters, envelope, postcards


Box MB8 Folder 50 Haga Kōshirō 芳賀幸四郎, 1988, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 51 Haga Tōru 芳賀徹, 1972/1997, undated, 10 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, booklet, phonecard


Box MB8 Folder 52 Hagiwara Nobutoshi 萩原延壽, 1975/1997, undated, 30 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, article


Box MB8 Folder 53 Hata Kōhei 秦恒平, 1976/1996, undated, 32 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB8 Folder 54 Hayashi Takeji 林竹二, 1976, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB8 Folder 55 Higashiyama Kaii 東山魁夷, 1977/1996, undated, 12 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB8 Folder 56 Hino Ashihei 火野葦平, 1958, undated, 8 items

Letters, envelope, postcards


Box MB8 Folder 57 Hosaka Kazushi 保坂和志, 1998/2001, 4 items

Postcards


Box MB8 Folder 58 Ikeda Masuo 池田満寿夫, 1994, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 59 Inokuma Gen'ichirō 猪熊弦一郎, 1992, undated, 2 items

Postcard, namecard


Box MB8 Folder 60 Inoue Hisashi 井上ひさし, circa 1974, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB8 Folder 61 Irokawa Daikichi 色川大吉, 1983/1990, 5 items

Letters, envelopes, postcard


Box MB8 Folder 62 Ishihara Shintarō 石原慎太郎, 1987, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 63 Ishikawa Tatsuzō 石川達三, 1976, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB8 Folder 64 Itō Sei 伊藤整, 1954/1965, undated, 13 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, namecard


Box MB8 Folder 65 Kaga Otohiko 加賀乙彦, 1977/1995, 5 items

Postcards, aerogram


Box MB8 Folder 66 Kaikō Takeshi 開高健 (1 of 2), 1975/1988, undated, 8 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB8 Folder 67 Kaikō Takeshi 開高健 (2 of 2), 1969/1974, undated, 15 items

Letters, envelopes, postcard, article


Box MB8 Folder 68 Kaneko Keizō 金子桂三, undated, 1 items

Letter


Box MB8 Folder 69 Kaneko Tōta 金子兜太, circa 1993, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB8 Folder 70 Katō Shūichi 加藤周一, 1997, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB8 Folder 71 Kawakami Tetsutarō 河上徹太郎, 1963, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB8 Folder 72 Kawamura Hatsue 川村ハツエ, undated, 1 items

Letter


Box MB8 Folder 73 Kinoshita Junji 木下順二, 1954/1955, 7 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, namecard


Box MB8 Folder 74 Kita Morio 北杜夫, 1972/circa 2000, 52 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, invented banknotes, namecard


Box MB8 Folder 75 Koizumi Shinzō 小泉信三, 1965, undated, 4 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB8 Folder 76 Konishi Jin'ichi 小西甚一 (1 of 2), 1975/2000, undated, 17 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, greeting card


Box MB8 Folder 76-2 Konishi Jin'ichi 小西甚一 (2 of 2), 1975/1996, undated, 14 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, greeting card


Box MB8 Folder 77 Kōno Taeko 河野多恵子, 1992/1994, 17 items

Letters, envelopes, greeting card, curriculum vitae


Box MB8 Folder 78 Koyama Itoko 小山いと子, undated, 3 items

Letter, envelope, greeting card


Box MB8 Folder 79 Kusano Shinpei 草野心平, 1974, 3 items

Letter, envelope, postcard


Box MB8 Folder 80 Kushida Magoichi 串田孫一, 1975/1981, 9 items

Letter, envelope, postcards



Box MB9 Folder 81 Maki Yōko 牧羊子, 1976/1992, 9 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB9 Folder 82 Maruya Saiichi 丸谷才一, 1972/1982, undated, 8 items

Letters, envelope, postcards, namecard


Box MB9 Folder 83 Minakami Tsutomu 水上勉, 1968, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 84 Mishima Yōko 三島瑤子, 1970/1988, undated, 23 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, article


Box MB9 Folder 85 Mishima Yūichi 三島佑一, undated, 1 items

Letter


Box MB9 Folder 86 Miyata Masayuki 宮田雅之, 1978, 1 items

Card


Box MB9 Folder 87 Morita Tama 森田たま, 1954/1955, undated, 6 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB9 Folder 88 Nagai Michiko 永井路子, 1970/1985, 2 items

Postcard, aerogram


Box MB9 Folder 89 Naka Tarō 那珂太郎, 1965, 1 items

Letter, publication announcement


Box MB9 Folder 90 Nakajima Osamu 中島治, 1988, 1 items

Letter, publication announcement


Box MB9 Folder 91 Nakamura Hiroko 中村紘子, 1974/1983, 14 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, greeting cards


Box MB9 Folder 92 Nakamura Shin'ichirō 中村真一郎, 1985, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 93 Nakane Chie 中根千枝, 1979, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 94 Nakazato Fumio 中里富美雄, undated, 1 items

Letter, publication announcement


Box MB9 Folder 95 Nasuda Kei 奈須田敬, 1972, 1 items

Letter, publication announcement


Box MB9 Folder 96 Nogami Yaeko 野上弥生子, undated, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 97 Nomura Mansaku 野村万作, 1981/1990, undated, 7 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB9 Folder 98 Ōba Minako 大庭みな子, 1972/1998, undated, 5 items

Letter, envelope, postcards, greeting card


Box MB9 Folder 99 Oda Makoto 小田実 (1 of 2), 1998/2002, undated, 18 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, articles


Box MB9 Folder 100 Oda Makoto 小田実 (2 of 2), 1998/2004, undated, 18 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, articles; One article contains holographic letter in margin


Box MB9 Folder 101 Ōoka Makoto 大岡信 (1 of 2), 1974/2003, undated, 25 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB9 Folder 102 Ōoka Makoto 大岡信 (2 of 2), 1973/1994, 9 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB9 Folder 103 Ōoka Shōhei 大岡昇平, 1972/1987, 16 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, music notes


Box MB9 Folder 104 Osaragi Jirō 大佛次郎, 1954, 3 items

Letter, envelope, namecard


Box MB9 Folder 105 Saeki Shōichi 佐伯彰一, 1984, undated, 3 items

Letter, envelope, postcard


Box MB9 Folder 106 Senuma Shigeki 瀬沼茂樹, 1977, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB9 Folder 107 Serizawa Kōjirō 芹沢光治良, 1972/1977, undated, 7 items

Envelopes, postcards, greeting card, namecard


Box MB9 Folder 108 Setouchi Jakuchō [Harumi] 瀬戸内寂聴 [晴美], 1992, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 109 Shiba Ryōtarō 司馬遼太郎, 1979/1988, undated, 19 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB9 Folder 110 Shibukawa Gyō 渋川驍, 1983/1984, 7 items

Letters, envelopes, postcard


Box MB9 Folder 111 Shimaoka Tatsuzō 島岡達三, 1994, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 112 Shimizu Fumio 清水文雄, undated, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 113 Shimizu Kon 清水崑, 1972, undated, 3 items

Postcards


Box MB9 Folder 114 Shinoda Tōkō 篠田桃紅, 1988, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 115 Shiraishi Kazuko 白石かずこ, 1994, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB9 Folder 116 Shōji Kaoru 庄司薫, 1972/1980, 6 items

Postcards


Box MB9 Folder 117 Shōji Takao 庄司孝男, 1998, 1 items

Letter



Box MB10 Folder 118 Takaha Shugyō 鷹羽狩行, 1989/1993, undated, 7 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB10 Folder 119 Takahama Kyoshi 高浜虚子, 1956, 1 items

Postcard, sent to Kawabata Yasunari


Box MB10 Folder 120 Takahashi Hidemasa, undated, 4 items

Envelope, articles


Box MB10 Folder 121 Takahashi Yoshitaka 高橋義孝, 1967, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB10 Folder 122 Takemitsu Tōru 武満徹, 1976/1978, 3 items

Letter, envelope, postcard


Box MB10 Folder 123 Tamiya Torahiko 田宮虎彦, 1958, 1 items

Aerogram


Box MB10 Folder 124 Tanida Shōhei 谷田昌平, 1985, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB10 Folder 125 Tanigawa Shuntarō 谷川俊太郎, 1970/1993, 2 items

Letter, postcard


Box MB10 Folder 126 Tanizaki Matsuko 谷崎松子 (1 of 2), 1966/1978, undated, 12 items

Letters, scrolled letters, envelopes


Box MB10 Folder 127 Tanizaki Matsuko 谷崎松子 (2 of 2), 1954/1982, undated, 24 items

Letters, scrolled letters, envelopes, greeting cards, article


Box MB10 Folder 128 Teruoka Yasutaka 暉峻康隆, 1977, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB10 Folder 129 Tsuji Kunio 辻邦生 (1 of 2), 1977/1996, undated, 25 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB10 Folder 130 Tsuji Kunio 辻邦生 (2 of 2), 1989/1994, undated, 12 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards


Box MB10 Folder 131 Tsukasa Osamu 司修, 1992/1993, 4 items

Letter, envelope, postcards


Box MB10 Folder 132 Tsunabuchi Kenjō 綱淵謙錠, 1975/1992, 8 items

Scrolled letters, postcard


Box MB10 Folder 133 Tsurushima Masao 鶴島正男, undated, 1 items

Letter


Box MB10 Folder 134 Tsushima Michiko 津島美知子, 1963/1973, 5 items

Letter, envelope, postcard, article


Box MB10 Folder 135 Ubukata Tatsue 生方たつゑ, 1966, 15 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, articles


Box MB10 Folder 136 Ueda Eiko 上田英子, 1990, 1 items

Letter


Box MB10 Folder 137 Uno Chiyo 宇野千代, 1972/1977, 6 items

Letters, envelopes


Box MB10 Folder 138 Yamada Keita 山田啓太, 1993, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB10 Folder 139 Yamada Taichi 山田太一, 1982/1989, 2 items

Postcards


Box MB10 Folder 140 Yamamoto Kaneko 山本かね子, undated, 2 items

Letter, envelope


Box MB10 Folder 141 Yamamoto Kenkichi 山本健吉, 1955/1977, undated, 9 items

Letters, envelopes, postcards, aerogram


Box MB10 Folder 142 Yamazaki Masakazu 山崎正和, 1974/1991, undated, 13 items

Letters, envelope, postcards, aerograms


Box MB10 Folder 143 Yasuoka Shōtarō 安岡章太郎, 1989, 1 items

Postcard


Box MB10 Folder 144 Yoshida Ken'ichi 吉田健一, 1956/1961, 4 items

Letter, aerograms


Box MB10 Folder 145 Yoshikawa Kōjirō 吉川幸次郎, 1979, undated, 3 items

Postcards, namecard


Box MB10 Folder 146 Unidentified, undated, 1 items

Letter


Box MB10 Folder 147 Namecards/名刺, undated, 18 items

Namecards