A History of Japanese Literature 1
Subtitle: The First Thousand Years
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: January 1983
Language: eng
Translated from: jpn
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780870113079
Subjects: Asian - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism
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.