num_pages: 525
description: Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms; annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts.Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is now available for purchase as a separate volume.
language: English
title: Classical Japanese: A Grammar
titlecomplete: Classical Japanese: A Grammar
genres: Japan, Reference, Japanese Literature, Language, Textbooks, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 32
publisher: Columbia University Press