Early Modern Japanese Literature
Subtitle: An Anthology, 1600-1900
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1392
ISBN-13: 9780231109901
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Japanese Literature; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese; Literature: Classics; Asian; Asian - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian
First sentence: One of the most dramatic transformations in Japanese history was the transition from the medieval period (thirteenth to sixteenth century) to the early modern era (1600-1867), when literary and cultural paradigms gave birth to a whole new body of vernacular literature.