A History of Japanese Literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 1983
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333220887
First sentence: The literature of Japan has several distinctive features, related to the role of literature in Japanese culture as a whole; the pattern of its historical development; the writing system; the social background; and the underlying Japanese world-view of life, death, religion and philosophy.